From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: [PATCH] Optimized cvsexportcommit: calling 'cvs status' only once instead of once per changed file. Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 13:04:45 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: References: <0056A63A-D511-4FDD-82A6-A13B06E237E9@zib.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Steffen Prohaska X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed May 09 13:05:45 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 1Hljz3-0005nr-0x for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 09 May 2007 13:05:44 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756258AbXEILEm (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2007 07:04:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756113AbXEILEm (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2007 07:04:42 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:49748 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1756936AbXEILEl (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2007 07:04:41 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 09 May 2007 11:04:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (EHLO [138.251.11.74]) [138.251.11.74] by mail.gmx.net (mp056) with SMTP; 09 May 2007 13:04:38 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+JSyty3U2J7y7W/nr58pKZrb6J77pHuCxtGaylgB p2frEb2yqEcrY7 X-X-Sender: gene099@racer.site In-Reply-To: <0056A63A-D511-4FDD-82A6-A13B06E237E9@zib.de> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Wed, 9 May 2007, Steffen Prohaska wrote: > The old implementation executed 'cvs status' for each file touched by > the patch to be applied. I did not follow development of that script closely, but could it be that this is a safety valve, to make it unlikely to commit something which was changed by somebody else in the meantime? Ciao, Dscho