From: Geert Bosch <bosch@adacore.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:22:03 GMT
Subject: Re: Mercurial's only true "plugin" extension: inotify... and can it be done in Git?
Message-ID: <3838F28A-DB0C-4678-BA57-3344E2225889@adacore.com>
In-Reply-To: <200803091459.21354.jnareb@gmail.com>


On Mar 9, 2008, at 09:59, Jakub Narebski wrote:

> 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