From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 09:33:07 GMT
Subject: Re: Funny: git -p submodule summary
Message-ID: <20090109093307.GA2039@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7veizc25e8.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 01:30:23AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> This arrangement to have the third process could even open the possibility
> of having it read from git and write to pager, and not launching the pager
> if there is no interesting data from git to feed it with.
> 
> I do not know if I like the performance implications associated with it,
> though.

Ugh. That has definitely been a requested feature, but the thought of
essentially running "cat" in our pipeline strikes me as a bit kludgey.

On the other hand, we are by definition going to the pager in that case,
so in theory performance is less of a consideration.

But see my other mail for why a third process is hard to always do on
Windows.

-Peff