On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 01:28:18PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Russell King wrote: > > This says it all. 1min 22secs to generate a patch from a locally > > modified but uncommitted file. > > No, there's something else going on. > > Most likely that something forced a total index file re-validation, and > the time you see is every single checked out file having its SHA1 > re-computed. > > Was this a recently cloned tree, or what was the last operation you did on > that tree before that command? Something must have invalidated the index.
cg-update origin and then I edited drivers/serial/8250.c As discovered using: sh -x /usr/bin/cg-diff drivers/serial/8250.c it appears that cg-diff does a git-update-cache --refresh >/dev/null each time it's run, which is taking the bulk of the time. Also note that curiously, it exits with status 1. -- Russell King - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html