From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2016 14:43:52 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v12 05/20] index-helper: add --strict
Message-ID: <CACsJy8BbfjoyTpgB6+rgHW-HORjs20KLP-gU2q19Od1HgjkYcA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1463694357-6503-6-git-send-email-dturner@twopensource.com>

On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 11:45 PM, David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com> wrote:
> +--strict::
> +--no-strict::
> +       Strict mode makes index-helper verify the shared memory after
> +       it's created. If the result does not match what's read from
> +       $GIT_DIR/index, the shared memory is destroyed. This makes
> +       index-helper take more than double the amount of time required
> +       for reading an index, but because it will happen in the
> +       background, it's not noticable.

Slightly off-topic, but for big indexes, running by a script or
something, then the window for reading/verifying is not big and this
strict verification will become noticable.

>  `--strict` is enabled by default.

.. so we probably still want --strict by default for now. After this
feature exits the experimental stage, we can switch it off.
-- 
Duy