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Re: Mercurial's only true "plugin" extension: inotify... and can it be done in Git?

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GBGeert Bosch <bosch@adacore.com>
Date
Mar 10, 2008, 19:22 UTC
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On Mar 9, 2008, at 09:59, Jakub Narebski wrote:
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> This extension[3][4] optimises "hg status" command by asking file
> notification daemon about changed files instead of doing stat. I'm not
> sure how useful this extension is: inotify is Linux specific, and  
> Linux
> has fast stat... nevertheless this is one example where extension
> (plug-in) framework shows that it can do more than good scriptability.

FWIW, OS X 10.5 has a similar functionality, called "fsevents", as well as a much slower stat.

   -Geert
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  1. Jakub NarebskiMar 9, 2008
  2. Jakub NarebskiMar 10, 2008
  3. Andreas EricssonMar 11, 2008
  4. Junio C HamanoMar 11, 2008
  5. Andreas EricssonMar 11, 2008
  6. Jakub NarebskiMar 11, 2008
  7. Geert BoschMar 10, 2008
  8. Shawn O. PearceMar 10, 2008
  9. J. Bruce FieldsMar 10, 2008
  10. Jakub NarebskiMar 15, 2008

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