From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:53:27 GMT
Subject: Re: git bugs
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0806111151260.3101@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <832adb090806111148u5e13e9c5g7afc5b013e6f1223@mail.gmail.com>



On Wed, 11 Jun 2008, Ben Lynn wrote:
>
> The only drawback is that I'm not sure how acceptable it is to write to 
> the index on a read operation. Is this a big deal?

Historically, we *never* did it. In fact, it was a big deal. These days we 
do it opportunistically for "git diff" if we can, but making sure that it 
all still works for a read-only access (think gitweb etc - the reader is 
*not* necessarily the owner of the archive at all!)

So I really prefer not to. But you can take it up with Junio if you think 
it can be a big deal.

		Linus