Re: Avery Pennarun's git-subtree?

From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 24, 2010, 20:07 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=Qp5CNCe=V2LCH2_EcTkxSpJ6+EHkk_BmUr9+B@mail.gmail.com>
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Heya,

On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 17:50, Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com> wrote:

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> IMHO, the correct answer here is to have an inotify-based daemon prod
> at the .git/index automatically when files get updated, so that git
> itself doesn't have to stat/readdir through the entire tree in order
> to do any of its operations.  (Windows also has something like inotify
> that would work.)  If you had this, then git
> status/diff/checkout/commit would be just as fast with zillions of
> files as with 10 files.  Sooner or later, if nobody implements this, I
> promise I'll get around to it since inotify is actually easy to code
> for :)

From what I've heard both SVN and Mercurial have something like that and it's incredible unstable and icky and nasty and bad and will eat your babies. Then again, I don't have any experience with inotify, so if you say that it's all good and awesome, who am I to doubt that :).

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Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier