From: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 21:52:47 GMT
Subject: Re: [Census] So who uses git?
Message-ID: <20060131215247.GF16561@fieldses.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0601311314030.7301@g5.osdl.org>

On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 01:25:08PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> So we could speed it up on cygwin (and yes, it would speed git up a lot 
> even on Linux, but since the cached lstat() case is so fast anyway, I 
> doubt a lot of Linux users care - the biggest win would be on a cold-cache 
> tree).  But it would require that you explicitly _mark_ the files you edit 
> some way.

You couldn't depend on a combination of lstat's and some kind of
filesystem change notifications?

--b.