Re: Slow start-up on Git trees

[Dan Nicolaescu]

Christian Faulhammer <address@hidden> writes:

  > Hi,
  > 
  > Joakim Tjernlund reported in
  > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=281009 that Emacs started in a
  > Git tree is really slow.  This does not happen with other SCM systems
  > and we were able to reproduce the problem and narrowing it down
  > to /usr/bin/git diff-index -z HEAD -- Makefile, called in
  > vc-git-state.  Any possibilities to improve performance here?

There are at lease two ways: 
- talk the git people to improve the performance of "git diff-index",
- implement a vc-git-state-heuristic (see other vc-*-state-heuristic
  functions) that parses .git/index and uses that return the state of
  the file, thus avoiding the "git diff-index" call.

Is worth it?  
I'd say probably not, the delay only happens the first time of accessing
a file in the git tree.