Don't waste CPU or memory on ignored files

[rpmcruz]

Greetings,

I have a project where I have hundreds of thousands of small images, which in total make up more than 50 GB.

The data folder, and all these files, are ignored by .gitignore. It still seems the case that RabbitVCS transverses there.

I think this may be why RabbitVCS is incredibly slow and run at 100% of CPU for a few minutes on my old laptop. In my desktop system which has SSD disk, it runs pretty fast, though it requires 2.8 GB of memory.

Why not just do a "git status" on each folder rather than look at the files underneath? Or am I wrong on my diagnosis?

Let me know if you need help fixing this. :)

[adamplumb]

How long does it take your laptop to run git status on that repo? I'm sure we can improve how we handle ignored files, though yours is kind of an edge case. I'll keep this in mind though as a possible enhancement.