Subject: bug#41955: 28.0.50; Monorepos and project.el

From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2020 04:23:09 +0300

On 21.06.2020 02:29, Juri Linkov wrote:
> Isn't this the same problem that we discussed recently in bug#41572 to
> define a project's root using a special file .project or more generally
> .dir-locals.el.

Perhaps.

But as a monorepo with lots of files, this project (or a set of 
projects) would be particularly susceptible to the problem of slow file 
listing if the new backend doesn't reuse 'git ls-files' somehow, or 
implements some fast strategy of its own.