From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
To: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Adding a new file as if it had existed
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:20:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <457EACA0.7050208@op5.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200612121226.32772.andyparkins@gmail.com>
Andy Parkins wrote:
> On Tuesday 2006 December 12 11:32, Bahadir Balban wrote:
>
>> If I don't know which files I may be touching in the future for
>> implementing some feature, then I am obliged to add all the files even
>> if they are irrelevant. I said "performance reasons" assuming all the
>> file hashes need checked for every commit -a to see if they're
>> changed, but I just tried on a PIII and it seems not so slow.
>
> Here's a handy rule of thumb I've learned in my use of git:
>
> "git is fast. Really fast."
>
Almost alarmingly so. When I started using git (back in May/June last
year, when git was 2 - 3 months old), I was worried at first because it
didn't seem to actually *do* anything, but just returned me to the
prompt immediately.
>
> As to your direct concern: git doesn't hash every file at every commit. There
> is no need. git has an "index" that is used to prepare a commit; at the time
> you do the actual commit, git already knows which files are being checked in.
>
> In short - don't worry about making life easy for git - it's a workhorse and
> does a grand job.
>
Yup. Now I've gone the other way around and think other scm's are broken
when they chew disk for 10 seconds whenever I try to do anything with
them. I usually end up importing the other repo into git and do my work
there.
--
Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se
OP5 AB www.op5.se
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-12 13:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-12 10:05 Adding a new file as if it had existed Bahadir Balban
2006-12-12 10:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-12-12 11:32 ` Bahadir Balban
2006-12-12 12:07 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-12-12 12:26 ` Andy Parkins
2006-12-12 13:20 ` Andreas Ericsson [this message]
2006-12-12 18:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-12-13 9:40 ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-12-13 15:46 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-12-13 15:52 ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-12-12 12:36 ` Jakub Narebski
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