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| author |  Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> | 2016-02-19 14:47:08 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> | 2016-02-19 14:47:08 -0400 |
| commit | 9d181ef87f5b4cabda3d66193494b2dfe76fbefc (patch) | |
| tree | b53e86b1df2f7a20c1d214cff7c887ce94f63115 /doc | |
| parent | bfb31fc649920ae345c36eb06e0b01b2be340947 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/doc/todo/make_annex_info_more_efficient/comment_5_c6c8850aefe3ab81f1f113daa734695b._comment b/doc/todo/make_annex_info_more_efficient/comment_5_c6c8850aefe3ab81f1f113daa734695b._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..3e1cacc80 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/todo/make_annex_info_more_efficient/comment_5_c6c8850aefe3ab81f1f113daa734695b._comment @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="joey" + subject="""comment 5""" + date="2016-02-19T15:58:17Z" + content=""" +When run on a local repository, git-annex info does not look at the +git-annex branch. That would be slower than traversing the directories. +(Asking for info about a remote does look at the git-annex branch.) + +git ls-tree does not have to look at files on disk, so is not comprable. +The work `git annex info` does is roughly the same as a du of +.git/annex/objects and a readlink of each symlink in the work tree. + +If you just want the .git/annex/objects size, perhaps it would make sense +to have a way to get only one stat from git-annex status. Or perhaps +it would be as good to `du .git/annex/objects`? +"""]] |