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Re: [PATCH] git: add --no-optional-locks option

From
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Sep 25, 2017, 16:17 UTC
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<alpine.DEB.2.21.1.1709251816120.40514@virtualbox>
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<1506252671.8678.3.camel@gmail.com>
Hi Kaartic,
On Sun, 24 Sep 2017, Kaartic Sivaraam wrote:
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> On Thursday 21 September 2017 10:02 AM, Jeff King wrote:
> > Some tools like IDEs or fancy editors may periodically run commands
> > like "git status" in the background to keep track of the state of the
> > repository.
> 
> I might be missing something, shouldn't the IDEs be encouraged to use
> libgit2 instead? I thought it was meant for these use cases.

There are pros and cons. Visual Studio moved away from libgit2 e.g. to support SSH (back then, libgit2 did not support spawning processes, I have no idea whether that changed in the meantime).

Ciao, Johannes

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Message 18 of 26 in “git: add --no-optional-locks option”
  1. git: add --no-optional-locks optionJeff King, Sep 21, 2017
  2. Junio C HamanoSep 21, 2017
  3. Jeff KingSep 21, 2017
  4. Junio C HamanoSep 21, 2017
  5. Johannes SixtSep 21, 2017
  6. Jeff KingSep 22, 2017
  7. Jeff HostetlerSep 22, 2017
  8. Jeff KingSep 22, 2017
  9. Stefan BellerSep 22, 2017
  10. Jeff KingSep 22, 2017
  11. Stefan BellerSep 22, 2017
  12. Jeff KingSep 23, 2017
  13. Stefan BellerSep 25, 2017
  14. Jeff KingSep 27, 2017
  15. Daniel SantosSep 22, 2017
  16. Jeff KingSep 22, 2017
  17. Kaartic SivaraamSep 24, 2017
  18. Johannes SchindelinSep 25, 2017
  19. Jeff HostetlerSep 26, 2017
  20. Johannes SchindelinSep 25, 2017
  21. Jeff KingSep 25, 2017
  22. git: add --no-optional-locks optionJeff King, Sep 27, 2017
  23. Johannes SchindelinSep 28, 2017
  24. Jeff KingSep 27, 2017
  25. Kaartic SivaraamSep 27, 2017
  26. Jeff KingSep 27, 2017

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