From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
To: Marcus Griep <marcus@griep.us>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>,
Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>,
Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Add a "fast stat" mode for Cygwin
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 10:35:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080927083507.GA5342@blimp.localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1222498926-30635-1-git-send-email-marcus@griep.us>
Marcus Griep, Sat, Sep 27, 2008 09:02:06 +0200:
> This patch introduces core.cygwinnativestat configuration flag. If this
"cygwin.nativestat"? If only to shame them
> variable is not set then Git will work as before. However, if it is set
> then the Cygwin version of Git will try to use a Win32 API function if
> it is possible to speed up stat/lstat.
>
> This fast mode works only for relative paths. It is assumed that the
> whole repository is located inside one directory without using Cygwin
> mount to bind external paths inside of the current tree.
>
> Symbolic links are supported by falling back on the cygwin version of
> these functions.
The cygwins .lnk cannot be supported. The names just don't exist for
native GetFileAttributesExA.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-27 8:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-23 14:06 [PATCH] add GIT_FAST_STAT mode for Cygwin Dmitry Potapov
2008-09-23 14:37 ` Alex Riesen
2008-09-23 16:52 ` Dmitry Potapov
2008-09-23 17:51 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-09-24 11:25 ` Alex Riesen
2008-09-24 14:03 ` Dmitry Potapov
2008-09-24 14:42 ` Alex Riesen
2008-09-24 15:02 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-09-24 15:09 ` Alex Riesen
2008-09-24 15:16 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-09-24 15:32 ` Alex Riesen
2008-09-23 15:31 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-09-23 17:12 ` Dmitry Potapov
2008-09-23 19:06 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-09-23 20:04 ` Dmitry Potapov
2008-09-23 20:17 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-09-23 21:28 ` Dmitry Potapov
2008-09-23 21:58 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-09-23 19:03 ` Johannes Sixt
2008-09-23 19:48 ` Dmitry Potapov
2008-09-23 20:41 ` Johannes Sixt
2008-09-23 21:11 ` Dmitry Potapov
2008-09-27 7:02 ` [PATCH v2] Add a "fast stat" " Marcus Griep
2008-09-27 8:35 ` Alex Riesen [this message]
2008-09-27 10:39 ` Dmitry Potapov
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