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From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: inotify daemon speedup for git [POC/HACK]
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:58:31 -0500
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Heya,

On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 07:20, Finn Arne Gangstad <finnag@pvv.org> wrote:
> There is one minor nit: The speedup gain is zero :) git still
> traverses all directories to look for .gitignore files, which seems to
> totally kill the optimisation.

This is very true. In my experience with ginormous trees even if you
'git update-index --assume-unchanged' every file and directory it's
still unbearably slow due to the .gitignore files. Any solution that
aims to solve this problem should also address the .gitignore file
problem. Note: a safe assumption here is that to solve the problem it
needs to work if there are more .gitignore files than regular files
:).

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier