From: Alex Riesen Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:09:22 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] add GIT_FAST_STAT mode for Cygwin Message-ID: <81b0412b0809240809y4daa990cl5494d7b7398353f0@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20080924150231.GO3669@spearce.org> 2008/9/24 Shawn O. Pearce : > Alex Riesen wrote: >> 2008/9/24 Dmitry Potapov : >> >> > 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. > > To be consistent with everything else, compile-time sounds like > what we should do, its how just about every other part of Git > is configured. > > However Dmitry pointed out that he has cases where this faster > function doesn't work correctly, and it was path specific. Some > areas of the filesystem work, others don't, on the same system. Huh?! What are they? What paths require cygwin's handling which aren't handled already? (the absolute paths are handled).