Re: Make the git codebase thread-safe

On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 7:43 PM, Duy Nguyen [off-list ref] wrote:

From v1.9 shallow clone should work for all push/pull/clone... so
history depth does not matter (on the client side). As for
gentoo-x86's large worktree, using index v4 and avoid full-tree
operations (e.g. "status .", not "status"..) should make all
operations reasonably fast. I plan to make "status" fast even without
path limiting with the help of inotify, but that's not going to be
finished soon. Did I miss anything else?

Chromium developers frequently want to run status over their entire
checkout, and a lot of them run 'git commit -a'.  We want to do
everything possible to speed this up.