Re: What's new in git-gui.git

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: May 29, 2007, 11:18 UTC
Message-ID: <20070529111836.GW4489@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <20070529041108.GG7044@spearce.org>

On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 06:11:08AM CEST, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

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> Apparently the Linux folks have this new fangled inotify thing
> that is also good at telling applications about changed files.
> It seems the hg folks are using it to speed up "hg status" by
> having a background daemon keep track of which files are dirty,
> and which aren't.

How well does this play with NFS? I'm working at two places and at both have my ~ on NFS and sometimes touch the working tree from various machines. Would the inotify-based approach silently fail here? Or does inotify just refuse to work on NFS? Quick google search suggests the former, which is more than ok for informative purposes but big problem if you actually _rely_ on the inotify to keep your index up-to-date.

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