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Signifcant performance overhead on watching .git folder #129

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@dmtrKovalenko

I have been debugging why in some of the folders my plugin fff scan is very contended and sometimes very slow on a large git repo and as appeared the reason is this function

local function watch_gitdir(dir)
-- Stop if there is already a watcher running
if watchers[dir] then return end
---@type userdata
watchers[dir] = vim.loop.new_fs_event()
watchers[dir]:start(
dir,
{ recursive = true },
vim.schedule_wrap(function(...) on_throttled_change(dir, ...) end)
)
state.current_watcher_dir = dir
end

you are setting recursive watcher on the .git folder unconditionally in case of chromium monorepo the .git folder is 64GB and 700k+ object files inside - this exhauses the file system watcher, adds a lot of VFS load and simply unnecessary

Instead you can watch specifically one file .git/index - you can watch exatly one path and keep the exact functionality untouched

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