From aeb6f8b3a2bbfd8b48a967139fbf4581e5345182 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?utf8?q?Nguy=E1=BB=85n=20Th=C3=A1i=20Ng=E1=BB=8Dc=20Duy?= Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2015 17:12:47 +0700 Subject: [PATCH] git-status.txt: advertisement for untracked cache MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit When a good user sees the "too long, consider -uno" advice when running `git status`, they should check out the man page to find out more. This change suggests they try untracked cache before -uno. Helped-by: brian m. carlson Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/git-status.txt | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-status.txt b/Documentation/git-status.txt index 4d8d530d35..56573bd86e 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-status.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-status.txt @@ -58,7 +58,10 @@ When `-u` option is not used, untracked files and directories are shown (i.e. the same as specifying `normal`), to help you avoid forgetting to add newly created files. Because it takes extra work to find untracked files in the filesystem, this mode may take some -time in a large working tree. You can use `no` to have `git status` +time in a large working tree. +Consider enabling untracked cache and split index if supported (see +`git update-index --untracked-cache` and `git update-index +--split-index`), Otherwise you can use `no` to have `git status` return more quickly without showing untracked files. + The default can be changed using the status.showUntrackedFiles -- 2.11.4.GIT