Re: [PATCH 0/2] describe and diff: implement --no-optional-locks

From

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Date

Mar 10, 2025, 18:53 UTC

Message-ID

<xmqqo6y87m4d.fsf@gitster.g>

In-Reply-To

<20250310160837.GA26308@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> But maybe that is lost in the noise of reading the files to actually do
> diffs, etc? I dunno. I expect it is more important for status, which
> probably does not need to read the whole file contents in most cases
> (and which may be run a lot from the user's prompt, etc).

> It seems like a big and possibly risky departure from what we've done
> for so many years. I'm inclined not to rock the boat too much. ;)