From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 18:05:20 GMT
Subject: Re: Sort of a feature proposal
Message-ID: <868wymrnvj.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>
In-Reply-To: <37fcd2780805071050n5153f5d2rf31a0f263820e92@mail.gmail.com>

"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