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Re: Sort of a feature proposal

From
David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date
May 7, 2008, 18:05 UTC
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"Dmitry Potapov" <dpotapov@gmail.com> writes:
>>  Is there a way to completely invalidate the disk cache without
>>  unmounting?
>
> echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches

Sigh. It is the disk cache after all. Looks like "git svn rebase" can't just work from the index (ok, it checks whether there are unstashed modifications). And indeed, flushing the cache will make much less of a difference for "git svn fetch" than for rebase.

Sorry for the noise.
-- 
David Kastrup
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  1. David KastrupMay 7, 2008
  2. Nicolas PitreMay 7, 2008
  3. Stephen R. van den BergMay 7, 2008
  4. Avery PennarunMay 7, 2008
  5. Linus TorvaldsMay 7, 2008
  6. David KastrupMay 7, 2008
  7. Dmitry PotapovMay 7, 2008
  8. David KastrupMay 7, 2008

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