From: Juliusz Chroboczek <juliusz.chroboczek@pps.jussieu.fr>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 18:35:16 GMT
Subject: Re: Core and Not-So Core
Message-ID: <7i8y2cz8kb.fsf@lanthane.pps.jussieu.fr>
In-Reply-To: <2cfc40320505100800426d38ca@mail.gmail.com>

> To give a concrete example: the cache currently contains most of the
> posix stat structure primarily to allow quick change detection. In the
> Java world, most of the posix stat structure is not directly
> accessible via the pure-Java file system abstractions. However, for
> most purposes detecting changes to files modification time and file
> size would be enough.

I've got exactly this problem in Darcs-git; and I ignore all of the
cached data except the file size, mtime and sha1.  I don't currently
ever write to the cache.

> I think it would be worthwhile if care was taken to draw a distinction
> between the repository and the cache aspects of the git core, perhaps
> even going to the extreme of moving all knowledge of the  cache into
> cogito itself.

There's nothing that prevents you from ignoring the Git cache and
using your own cache instead.

                                        Juliusz