git/list[1] front-page[2] threads[3] people[4] search[5] about
 

Re: Efficient way to import snapshots?

From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date
Jul 31, 2007, 00:45 UTC
Message-ID
<alpine.LFD.0.999.0707301744050.4161@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To
<7vsl75igtt.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> I guess so, but can higher stage entries have cached stat
> information that are valid and match the working tree?

Probably unlikely, but I could imagine that it's the case for things that failed to merge entirely (ie binaries), where you end up just saying "pick the old/base binary", and it ends up matching in stage1.

		Linus
Previous: Junio C HamanoNext: Junio C Hamano
Message 13 of 27 in “Efficient way to import snapshots?”
  1. Craig BostonJul 30, 2007
  2. Linus TorvaldsJul 30, 2007
  3. Craig BostonJul 30, 2007
  4. Linus TorvaldsJul 30, 2007
  5. Craig BostonJul 30, 2007
  6. Junio C HamanoJul 30, 2007
  7. Craig BostonJul 30, 2007
  8. Junio C HamanoJul 30, 2007
  9. Linus TorvaldsJul 30, 2007
  10. Junio C HamanoJul 30, 2007
  11. Linus TorvaldsJul 30, 2007
  12. Junio C HamanoJul 30, 2007
  13. Linus TorvaldsJul 31, 2007
  14. Junio C HamanoJul 31, 2007
  15. Craig BostonJul 30, 2007
  16. Linus TorvaldsJul 30, 2007
  17. Craig BostonJul 31, 2007
  18. Linus TorvaldsJul 31, 2007
  19. Theodore TsoJul 31, 2007
  20. Craig BostonJul 31, 2007
  21. Linus TorvaldsJul 31, 2007
  22. Theodore TsoJul 31, 2007
  23. David KastrupJul 31, 2007
  24. Florian WeimerJul 31, 2007
  25. David KastrupJul 31, 2007
  26. Jakub NarebskiJul 30, 2007
  27. David KastrupJul 30, 2007

Read the whole thread, see it on lore, or plain text.

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.