From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 11:13:14 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] Documentation/technical/api-fswatch.txt: start with outline
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Duy Nguyen wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 5:44 PM, Ramkumar Ramachandra
> <artagnon@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Just a small heads-up for people using Emacs.  24.4 has inotify
>> support, and magit-inotify.el [1] has already started using it.  From
>> initial impressions, I'm quite impressed with it.
>
> Have you tried it? From a quick look, it seems to watch all
> directories. I wonder how it performs on webkit (at least 5k dirs)

Yeah, but only on some small repositories.  I expect it to be
problematic on big repositories: if I'm not mistaken, Emacs will
block.