From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ben Lynn <benlynn@gmail.com>,
Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git bugs
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:50:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7viqwfbpzs.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0806111151260.3101@woody.linux-foundation.org> (Linus Torvalds's message of "Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:53:27 -0700 (PDT)")
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
> 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
Thanks for giving a good summary (I've been away), and I agree with your
analysis of the situation. I do not see much need to _fix_ anything
around this area, except your "smudging is not zero timestamp" update.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-11 21:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-10 8:41 git bugs Ben Lynn
2008-06-10 16:58 ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-06-10 17:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-10 18:45 ` Ben Lynn
2008-06-10 20:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-10 23:09 ` Ben Lynn
2008-06-10 23:38 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-11 0:02 ` Ben Lynn
2008-06-11 0:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-11 0:24 ` Ben Lynn
2008-06-11 0:53 ` Ben Lynn
2008-06-11 12:46 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-06-12 6:51 ` Ben Lynn
2008-06-11 1:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-11 2:04 ` Ben Lynn
2008-06-11 2:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-11 2:31 ` Ben Lynn
2008-06-11 2:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-11 5:58 ` Ben Lynn
2008-06-11 6:18 ` Ben Lynn
2008-06-11 14:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-11 17:52 ` Ben Lynn
2008-06-11 18:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-11 18:48 ` Ben Lynn
2008-06-11 18:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-11 20:57 ` Ben Lynn
2008-06-11 21:50 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-06-11 14:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-12 20:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-13 10:10 ` Jeff King
2008-06-13 23:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-14 6:25 ` Jeff King
2008-06-12 3:17 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-06-12 6:46 ` Ben Lynn
2008-06-12 7:12 ` Johannes Schindelin
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2017-02-23 20:27 Sean Hunt
2017-02-24 16:52 ` Johannes Schindelin
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