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From:   Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To:     "Saravanan Shanmugham \(sarvi\)" <sarvi@cisco.com>
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Subject: Re: First Git status takes 40+ minutes, when mounting fileystem/diskimage with 50G GIT repo + 900G of builds articles
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"Saravanan Shanmugham (sarvi)" <sarvi@cisco.com> writes:

> I suspect warming the filesystem caching is in play.
> But so is the fact that walk every tree to find untracked files as well. 

Enable the untracked cache and "update-index --refresh", before
freezing the repository + working tree state in the diskimage?