From: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 14:30:19 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2 v2] check-attr: Add --stdin-paths option
Message-ID: <20081012143019.GE21650@dpotapov.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <18671.55733.970601.454074@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>

On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 09:39:49AM +1100, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> 
> Actually, what was done with git diff-tree --stdin was to have it do
> fflush(stdout) when it sees a blank line in the input.  That gives the
> calling program a way to get the output up to that point without
> having to do a flush for every line of output.

It is an interesting idea, but I have not seen any other git command
doing so, and my measurement in git repo on Linux have not offered
any noticeable speed-up. So, I am not sure if it is worth it.

Dmitry