Re: vc-dir operation is very slow on large git repositories in Emacs 26.1

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> From: Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2018 15:55:38 +0300
> 
> It's used to obtain the list of conflicted files. Which is the new 
> feature added in the bug report I've referenced.
> 
> I'm not quite sure why we have to fetch the list of all files in the 
> repository to do that.
> 
> It seems like the approach was simply adapted from the 
> ls-files-up-to-date stage, but that one is only called for a list of 
> individual files, not for the status of a whole directory (e.g. whole 
> repository).

Maybe some Git expert could suggest a more economical way of doing the
same?  (I'm not that expert.)