[PATCH 25/32] update-index: new options to enable/disable split index mode

2014-06-13 Thread Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
If you have a large work tree but only make changes in a subset, then $GIT_DIR/index's size should be stable after a while. If you change branches that touch something else, $GIT_DIR/index's size may grow large that it becomes as slow as the unified index. Do --split-index again occasionally to

[PATCH 25/32] update-index: new options to enable/disable split index mode

2014-04-28 Thread Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
If you have a large work tree but only make changes in a subset, then $GIT_DIR/index's size should be stable after a while. If you change branches that touch something else, $GIT_DIR/index's size may grow large that it becomes as slow as the unified index. Do --split-index again occasionally to