From: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2019 02:24:49 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-gui: Perform rescan on window focus-in
Message-ID: <5027a6d9-7a6b-5f7d-759c-af967684b5b2@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20190728224943.GC162590@genre.crustytoothpaste.net>

On 7/28/19 6:49 PM, brian m. carlson wrote:> On 2019-07-28 at 22:10:29, 
Pratyush Yadav wrote:
 >> The function is not documented, and I only started spelunking the code a
 >> couple days back, so I'll try to answer with what I know. It might 
not be
 >> the full picture.
 >>
 >> Running git-gui --trace, these commands are executed during a rescan:
 >>
 >> /usr/lib/git-core/git-rev-parse --verify HEAD
 >> /usr/lib/git-core/git-update-index -q --unmerged --ignore-missing 
--refresh
 >>
 >
 > Great. This sounds like a well-reasoned change. I'll let other folks who
 > use git-gui more chime in to see what they think as well.
 >

I'm assuming this does what is currently done by F5.
A simple rescan from git-gui in the git repository takes about 8 seconds 
on my corporate laptop running Windows, making this happen on change of 
window focus is definitely not a friendly change from my view point.

Mark