Re: git performance after directory copy

Gaer, A. venit, vidit, dixit 20.09.2010 11:20:

Hello all,

while moving a project directory around I stumbled over an interesting
phenomenon. On a copied source directory "git status" seems to be about
3 times slower than on the original directory. Only after a "git reset"
both copies behave the same again. Is this connected to the timestamps
of files & directories? Actually I would like to move the project
directories of several software developers to a new partition and
forcing them all to "git reset" in all of their repos is a little bit
annoying. Any suggestions how to "repair" the repos less intrusive?

Since you clone from A to B, then copy from B several times, why don't
you clone from A several times instead?

If it's really about moving across file-system boundaries, then I don't
think there's a way around: you need to refresh the index with the
changed inodes information.

Michael