From: Martin Langhoff Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:00:10 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] bash: offer to show (un)staged changes Message-ID: <46a038f90901191000i250326e7k2184c149b70fcc8d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20090119172939.GA14053@spearce.org> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > ... 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. Note that inotify is not recursive and is a hog if you ask it to monitor lots of dents. I am not convinced that an inotify-enabled git is a good idea for anything but small/mid-sized project. And such don't need it either. In other words, the kernel's cache will outperform any userland attempting to keep track of the fs via inotify. cheers, m -- martin.langhoff@gmail.com martin@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff