On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 09:13:24PM +0100, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> It would be interesting to learn why Git is so much faster, but I have not
> looked in detail. There is a lot of complicated Git code to read if you
> want to find out. I won't spend time on it myself because there are other
> areas which are in more dire need of improvement.

If I recall correctly, I think this is what the git setting of:

    core.preloadindex

is meant to help with.  But I haven't ever looked at the implementation
details of how it does things.

Kindly,
Thomas