Re: git status --ignored hangs when a deep directory structure present in working tree

[Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 5:57 AM SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 09:06:01PM -0800, Elijah Newren wrote:
> > > the runtime of 'git status
> > > --ignored' grows quickly with the depth of the untracked directory.
> > > Running this shell loop produces the numbers below:
> > >
> > > for depth in $(seq 10 30)
> > > do
> > >         dirs=$(for i in $(seq 1 $depth) ; do printf 'dir/' ; done)
> > >         rm -rf dir
> > >         mkdir -p $dirs
> > >         >$dirs/untracked-file
> > >         /usr/bin/time --format="$depth: %e" git status --ignored >/dev/null
> > > done
> > >
> > > 10: 0.01
> > > 11: 0.03
> > > 12: 0.05
> > > 13: 0.11
> > > 14: 0.23
> > > 15: 0.47
> > > 16: 0.97
> > > 17: 1.97
> > > 18: 3.88
> > > 19: 7.85
> > > 20: 16.29
> > > 21: 32.92
> > > 22: 76.24
[...]
> > > Unless I messed up my numbers, with a depth of 120 directories it
> > > would take over 6*10^23 years to complete... so yeah, it does qualify
> > > as indefinitely.
> >
> > No comment about how people today are spoiled and addicted to instant
> > gratification?  I mean, can't folks just be a little patient?  ;-)
>
> Nope.  Notice how my shell loop above goes to 30, but the results only
> to 22 :)

I was specifically referring to your 6*10^23 years estimate when I was
jokingly suggesting just a little more patience.  :-)