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Joey Hess 2011-06-14 19:05:45 -04:00
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@ -8,3 +8,12 @@ in a 50k key git-annex on a slow disk, this takes quite a while, while not
seeming necessary (it's just re-encrypting the shared secret, is it?).
could you verify the observed behavior?
> This is due to `git commit` being called. `git commit` exposes git's
> rather innefficient handling of the index; in order to make a commit
> it has to write a new index file, and it does this by scanning every
> file in the repository. I think that git generally needs its index
> file handleing overhauled, particularly to deal with repositories with
> large numbers of files. git-annex is seems to already be running
> `git commit` in its most efficient mode, by specifying exactly what file
> to commit. [[done]] --[[Joey]]