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| author |  Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> | 2015-04-09 13:45:47 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> | 2015-04-09 13:45:47 -0400 |
| commit | 99bf102115bffd5b6608f8e99f095b649f88fe4b (patch) | |
| tree | f2278478ca7841394a31a982570b93e4c5b07644 | |
| parent | a5559393686b37093728a5c1dafc8abc79ee9188 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/doc/forum/Why_is_git_annex_status_slow__63__/comment_3_8d9e5a1aef2648d7a844623e6237d551._comment b/doc/forum/Why_is_git_annex_status_slow__63__/comment_3_8d9e5a1aef2648d7a844623e6237d551._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..54d2b24c4 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/Why_is_git_annex_status_slow__63__/comment_3_8d9e5a1aef2648d7a844623e6237d551._comment @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="joey" + subject="""comment 3""" + date="2015-04-09T17:44:01Z" + content=""" +The sizes of the files should not affect how fast git-annex status runs. + +But, direct mode certianly does. git-annex has to do significantly more +work in direct mode to figure out the status of a file. Including querying +git. In indirect mode, it can just stat the symlink and see if its content +is present, which is much faster. + +(There's probably also some other inneficiencies in Windows.) +"""]] |