See this posting to the git mailing list: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/194294 tl;dr: Jeff King found that we can get a 1.6x speedup for 'git status' by splitting up .gitattributes and .gitignore. Feedback welcome on Jeff's proposal.
Created attachment 134724 [details] Patch
Potential variations are: * Split into one patch per module * Consolidate to one .gitignore and one .gitattributes file per module
Comment on attachment 134724 [details] Patch awesome
Comment on attachment 134724 [details] Patch Perhaps add a comment in the root ignore and attributes files (at the top) to use the leaf-files instead
Created attachment 134808 [details] Patch
Comment on attachment 134808 [details] Patch Clearing flags on attachment: 134808 Committed r112683: <http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/112683>
All reviewed patches have been landed. Closing bug.
Great find! Do we still need the .gitattributes entries? Shouldn't we just fix the svn:eol-style on the mentioned files and remove the -crlf .gitattributes entries?
(In reply to comment #8) > Great find! Do we still need the .gitattributes entries? Shouldn't we just fix the svn:eol-style on the mentioned files and remove the -crlf .gitattributes entries? "Clean up LayoutTests/.gitattributes" https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82841