From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 12:11:13 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Update the bash prompt from 'applied' instead of the obsolete 'current'
Message-ID: <b0943d9e0705220511u2b3ed46fg220af2cce26fef96@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070521153952.GB6474@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>

On 21/05/07, Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com> wrote:
> My suggestion was to have a small stand-alone C program that could do
> some operations that need to be really fast, such as
> top/applied/unapplied. It need not have a nice user interface since
> it's only going to be called by scripts (bash-completion and the
> like), and it should only handle those operations that _must- avoid
> the Python startup penalty. And for sanity reasons, it should share
> code with stgit.

There is one more case to consider - people using NFS-mounted
directories. The applied/unapplied commands would be even slower and
the language overhead be negligible.

Another workaround would be to always generate the applied/unapplied
files when the stack structure changes.

-- 
Catalin