Subject: Re: [PATCH] status: hint the user about -uno if read_directory takes too long

From: Torsten Bögershausen <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 16:21:02 +0100

On 13.03.13 13:59, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy wrote:
> This patch attempts to advertise -uno to the users who tolerate slow
> "git status" on large repositories (or slow machines/disks). The 2
> seconds limit is quite arbitrary but is probably long enough to start
> using -uno.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  Documentation/config.txt |  4 ++++
>  advice.c                 |  2 ++
>  advice.h                 |  1 +
>  t/t7060-wtstatus.sh      |  2 ++
>  t/t7508-status.sh        |  4 ++++
>  t/t7512-status-help.sh   |  1 +
>  wt-status.c              | 20 +++++++++++++++++++-
>  wt-status.h              |  1 +
>  8 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
> index bbba728..e91d06f 100644
> --- a/Documentation/config.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/config.txt
> @@ -178,6 +178,10 @@ advice.*::
>  		the template shown when writing commit messages in
>  		linkgit:git-commit[1], and in the help message shown
>  		by linkgit:git-checkout[1] when switching branch.
> +	statusUno::
> +		If collecting untracked files in linkgit:git-status[1]
> +		takes more than 2 seconds, hint the user that the option
> +		`-uno` could be used to stop collecting untracked files.
Thanks, I like the idea
could we make a "de-Luxe" version where

statusUno is an integer, counting in milliseconds?

/Torsten