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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="imlew"
+ avatar="http://cdn.libravatar.org/avatar/23858c3eed3c3ea9e21522f4c999f1ed"
+ subject="comment 12"
+ date="2023-12-12T11:56:05Z"
+ content="""
+Hi joey,
+
+if it was slow because the inodes changed it should only be slow the first time `git status` etc are run.
+What I experienced was that it got slower the more files were in the repo whie the drive was continuously connected.
+
+
+Thanks for your suggestion to use a directory special remote, but it's not clear to me how that would be an improvement over a bare repo.
+The only drawback to using a bare repo is the lack of a working tree and special remotes don't seem to have that either.
+
+
+
+"""]]