From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Sort of a feature proposal
Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 20:05:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <868wymrnvj.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 37fcd2780805071050n5153f5d2rf31a0f263820e92@mail.gmail.com
"Dmitry Potapov" <dpotapov@gmail.com> writes:
>> Is there a way to completely invalidate the disk cache without
>> unmounting?
>
> echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
Sigh. It is the disk cache after all. Looks like "git svn rebase"
can't just work from the index (ok, it checks whether there are
unstashed modifications). And indeed, flushing the cache will make much
less of a difference for "git svn fetch" than for rebase.
Sorry for the noise.
--
David Kastrup
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-07 18:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-07 14:48 Sort of a feature proposal David Kastrup
2008-05-07 15:41 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-05-07 16:00 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-05-07 16:03 ` Avery Pennarun
2008-05-07 16:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-07 17:39 ` David Kastrup
2008-05-07 17:50 ` Dmitry Potapov
2008-05-07 18:05 ` David Kastrup [this message]
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