Re: [PATCH] bash: offer to show (un)staged changes

From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <bss@iguanasuicide.net>
Date: Jan 19, 2009, 19:06 UTC
Message-ID: <200901191306.49979.bss@iguanasuicide.net>
In-Reply-To: <46a038f90901191000i250326e7k2184c149b70fcc8d@mail.gmail.com>

On Monday 2009 January 19 12:00:10 Martin Langhoff wrote:

>On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>

wrote:

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>> ...  If we had
>> an inotify sort of daemon to keep the data current so the prompt
>> doesn't have to stat every source file on every display it would
>> be reasonable, but we don't have such a thing yet for Git.
>
>[T]he kernel's cache will outperform any userland
>attempting to keep track of the fs via inotify.

Really? Why have inotify then? I thought its only purpose is "to keep track of the fs". If it is never a net win, why even use/provide it?

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