From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Alex Vandiver <alexmv@dropbox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Ben Peart <peartben@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] fsmonitor: Watch, and ask about, the top of the repo, not the CWD
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2017 17:11:13 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1.1710271709570.6482@virtualbox> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.10.1710251700300.9817@alexmv-linux>
Hi Alex,
On Wed, 25 Oct 2017, Alex Vandiver wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Oct 2017, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > This is super expensive, as it means a full-blown new process instead of
> > just a simple environment variable expansion.
> >
> > The idea behind using `PWD` instead was that Git will already have done
> > all of the work of figuring out the top-level directory and switched to
> > there before calling the fsmonitor hook.
>
> I'm not seeing that PWD has been at all altered.
No, PWD is not altered.
But a simple environment variable expansion (fast) was replaced by
spawning to `git rev-parse --show-top-level` (slow, ~60ms on Windows).
*That* is expensive.
Ciao,
Johannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-27 15:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-20 1:11 [PATCH 0/4] fsmonitor fixes Alex Vandiver
2017-10-20 1:11 ` [PATCH 1/4] fsmonitor: Watch, and ask about, the top of the repo, not the CWD Alex Vandiver
2017-10-20 1:11 ` [PATCH 2/4] fsmonitor: Don't bother pretty-printing JSON from watchman Alex Vandiver
2017-10-20 13:00 ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-10-20 13:17 ` Ben Peart
2017-10-26 0:44 ` Alex Vandiver
2017-10-27 15:13 ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-10-20 1:11 ` [PATCH 3/4] fsmonitor: Document GIT_TRACE_FSMONITOR Alex Vandiver
2017-10-20 13:19 ` Ben Peart
2017-10-20 1:11 ` [PATCH 4/4] fsmonitor: Delay updating state until after split index is merged Alex Vandiver
2017-10-20 13:16 ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-10-20 21:47 ` Ben Peart
2017-10-21 2:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-10-21 3:35 ` Jeff King
2017-10-23 9:57 ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-10-23 12:36 ` Ben Peart
2017-10-26 1:20 ` Alex Vandiver
2017-10-20 12:58 ` [PATCH 1/4] fsmonitor: Watch, and ask about, the top of the repo, not the CWD Johannes Schindelin
2017-10-26 0:20 ` Alex Vandiver
2017-10-27 15:11 ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2017-10-20 13:17 ` [PATCH 0/4] fsmonitor fixes Johannes Schindelin
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