From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Shawn O. Pearce" Subject: Re: What's new in git-gui.git Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 22:39:33 -0400 Message-ID: <20070530023933.GL7044@spearce.org> References: <20070528224949.GC7044@spearce.org> <20070529041108.GG7044@spearce.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Johannes Schindelin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed May 30 04:40:22 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HtE6j-0004xt-W3 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 30 May 2007 04:40:18 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750942AbXE3Cji (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 May 2007 22:39:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750937AbXE3Cjh (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 May 2007 22:39:37 -0400 Received: from corvette.plexpod.net ([64.38.20.226]:42002 "EHLO corvette.plexpod.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750766AbXE3Cjh (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 May 2007 22:39:37 -0400 Received: from cpe-74-70-48-173.nycap.res.rr.com ([74.70.48.173] helo=asimov.home.spearce.org) by corvette.plexpod.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HtE5s-0003lz-3q; Tue, 29 May 2007 22:39:24 -0400 Received: by asimov.home.spearce.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B2A7B20FBAE; Tue, 29 May 2007 22:39:33 -0400 (EDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - corvette.plexpod.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - spearce.org X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > On Tue, 29 May 2007, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > > > Apparently the Linux folks have this new fangled inotify thing that is > > also good at telling applications about changed files. It seems the hg > > folks are using it to speed up "hg status" by having a background daemon > > keep track of which files are dirty, and which aren't. > > An SCM which runs a background process? Please, no. Well, not required. Making it required to make things work is clearly insane. But letting a user optionally start a background process to monitor their working directory and cache dirty flags for files may be faster for some users on some systems and some workflows. And it could make git-gui more responsive. If git-gui starts/stops the "background process" along with its window opening/closing, who cares that its running? Especially if it can be enabled/disabled by a little checkbox thingy? > Next thing is, you have a daemon running which permanently scans your > source code for copynotsoright violations. I won't. Maybe a future employer of yours might... ;-) -- Shawn.