avoiding scans of whole directory tree

[Adrian Buehlmann]

On 28.05.2008 09:34, Mohit Aron wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> commands like 'hg status' scan the full workspace to detect what's
> changed. There's an interesting svn thread where people have noticed
> such scans to be specially slow when the workspace contains several
> hundred megabytes of data (see
> http://www.nabble.com/performance-enhancement-by-working-copy-svn-server-td16519349.html).

Quoting David Wayne Summers on that thread:

'''
Just as a data point:

I work with a 6 Gig working copy (14 Gig repository) and can do status and
commit and update operations in seconds on Win XP SP2 with 2 Gig of RAM and
NTFS.
'''