Starting the assistant on a repository with a huge amount of files (f.e. annexed files in working tree: 22087) takes a very long time. Is there a way to speed it up? F.e. just checking the file stamps and comparing them with the last assistant run time? Checking if the files are modified could be done with the regular repository check. Thoughts?
Checking the time stamps is what it does.
How long is a very long time?
How can I measure how much time the startup scan takes? I tried to find it out using the debug log, but couldn't find any usable notice when the startup scan was finished. Maybe this two lines?
That's right.
15 minutes is certainly a very long time.
Is this on a slow spinning disk? USB disk?
The mentioned repository is stored on spinning disk. Maybe it would help to store the .git directory on an SSD, but I'm not sure how to do it.