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Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitk: refresh the index before running diff-files
From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder () gmail ! com>
Date: 2012-09-30 20:34:58
Message-ID: 20120930203458.GA31365 () elie ! Belkin
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Hi Jeff,
Jeff King wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 10:05:27AM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
>> Unfortunately this will wait for the git update-index command to
>> complete, making the GUI unresponsive while it executes, and that can
>> take minutes on a large repository (e.g. the linux kernel) on a
>> machine with a slow disk and a cold disk cache. We will need to make
>> the git update-index execute asynchronously.
>
> Good point. We're getting out of my very limited tcl cargo-culting
> skills now, so I'll let somebody more clueful do that fix.
You might find the following patch and discussion entertaining:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/144182
Not my itch, but it was fun to write back then. ;-)
Hope that helps,
Jonathan
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