Re: git binary directory?

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Nov 7, 2005, 09:45 UTC
Message-ID: <20051107094555.GS1431@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0511061653380.3316@g5.osdl.org>

Dear diary, on Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 01:54:55AM CET, I got a letter where Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> told me that...

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> On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Petr Baudis wrote:
> > 
> > I want to avoid extra fork()s and exec()s. They seem to routinely matter
> > in orders of magnitude of speed in tight loops.
> 
> Yes. The more I think about it, the less I like the separate binary 
> directory after all. The "git cmd" format is great for high-level 
> commands, but we've always done "git-diff-tree" and "git-rev-list" etc 
> without the "git cmd" indirection.
> 
> The downsides of a separate binary directory appear to be bigger than the 
> upside..

Well, _one_ fork per user invocation (subsequent invocations wouldn't need it, I already "cache" this kind of stuff in the environment) of a Cogito command (to get the path to the gitdir) is not such a big deal, I think.

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