From: Joshua Juran <jjuran@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:39:14 GMT
Subject: Re: inotify daemon speedup for git [POC/HACK]
Message-ID: <9E67A084-4EDB-4CCB-A771-11B97107F4EF@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinuU6b1vmRFuBrA4Tc5H6gmC5cMP3Pa8EYz-8JE@mail.gmail.com>

On Jul 27, 2010, at 4:29 PM, Avery Pennarun wrote:

> An inotify daemon could easily keep track of which files have been
> added that aren't in the index... but where would it put the list of
> files git doesn't know about?  Do they go in the index with a special
> NOT_REALLY_INDEXED flag?

One option is not to write it to disk at all.  The client could  
consult the daemon directly.

Josh