[darcs-devel] [issue390] "darcs whatsnew somefile" lstats every file in the working copy and pristine/ directory

[Juliusz Chroboczek]

> I do "darcs whatsnew somefile" and the performance is terrible (this
> is working on a remote filesystem that is mounted locally, so it
> massively exaggerates any problems).  Doing an strace on this simple
> operation produces a huge file, which appears to be doing lstat64 on
> every file in the _darcs/pristine/ and the

Known issue.  The Slurpy code needs to be refined.

Note that there's no issue on a sane local filesystem, as the i-node
cache (or your OS's equivalent) will hide the problem.  However, it
will bite you badly on a remote filesystem that has synchronous
semantics for stat.

                                        Juliusz