From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Brown <git@davidb.org>, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make use of stat.ctime configurable
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:49:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080728214957.GC3721@blimp.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0807280906530.3486@nehalem.linux-foundation.org>
Linus Torvalds, Mon, Jul 28, 2008 18:09:32 +0200:
> It really is just Beagle that is (was? I can dream) a piece of
> unbelievable crap.
>
> Anybody who uses extended attributes as part of a indexing scheme is just
> insane. Modifying the file you are indexing is not just fundamentally
> wrong to begin with, but it will then also be incredibly inefficient to
> read those entries one at a time.
>
> And no other sane model would ever touch 'ctime'.
Beagle is not alone. Google Desktop Search was mentioned before.
> Oh, well. Making ctime configurable is not wrong per se. But if it's
> Beagle that triggers this, the fix is sadly in the wrong place.
Never said it was a fix. Same as CRLF conversion is not a feature.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-29 6:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-21 17:35 [PATCH] Fix update-index --refresh for submodules if stat(2) returns st_size 0 Alex Riesen
2008-07-21 18:20 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-21 19:43 ` Alex Riesen
2008-07-21 23:26 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-22 8:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-22 16:49 ` Alex Riesen
2008-07-22 7:17 ` Johannes Sixt
2008-07-22 16:46 ` Alex Riesen
2008-07-22 16:59 ` Johannes Sixt
2008-07-22 17:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-22 19:39 ` [PATCH] Build configuration to skip ctime for modification test Alex Riesen
2008-07-22 20:17 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-22 20:31 ` Alex Riesen
2008-07-23 0:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-23 16:46 ` Alex Riesen
2008-07-23 16:59 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-23 19:16 ` Alex Riesen
2008-07-25 2:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-25 5:55 ` Alex Riesen
2008-07-26 0:57 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-26 15:38 ` [PATCH] Make use of stat.ctime configurable Alex Riesen
2008-07-27 19:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-27 19:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-28 6:31 ` Alex Riesen
2008-07-28 16:04 ` David Brown
2008-07-28 16:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-28 21:49 ` Alex Riesen [this message]
2008-07-29 1:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-29 1:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-29 1:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-29 1:41 ` David Brown
2008-07-29 2:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-29 10:45 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-29 1:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-29 2:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-29 10:49 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-28 16:20 ` Petr Baudis
2008-07-28 21:47 ` [PATCH] Improve the placement of core.trustctime in the documentation Alex Riesen
2008-07-29 6:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-24 19:00 ` [PATCH] Do not use ctime if file mode is not used Alex Riesen
2008-07-23 16:00 ` git svn throws locale related error when built from source Anton Mostovoy
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