From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:42:03 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add GIT_FAST_STAT mode for Cygwin
Message-ID: <81b0412b0809240742g2918b300h9114579c4ebf05b4@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080924140358.GX21650@dpotapov.dyndns.org>

2008/9/24 Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>:
> it works fine in almost all practical cases I aware of, but I cannot
> guarantee identical behavior in _all_ cases.

Well, make it as good as MSys/Cygwin's and no one asks for your guarantee.

> Frankly, I don't have strong preference here neither for making this
> fast version always work nor leave it conditional (perhaps, with the
> default setting use-fast-version). So, whatever the majority decides
> is fine with me.

I'm voting for compile-time configuration then.

>> Besides it will remove your setup code, which looks bigger and provoked
>> more discussion than the real subject itself.
>
> I believe Shawn wanted it to be configurable on per-repository basis.

which, I believe, is pointless.