From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Juan P Subject: Re: inotify support, nearly there Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 05:10:53 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jul 21 07:20:13 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1X961E-00043G-If for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2014 07:20:12 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752756AbaGUFUH (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jul 2014 01:20:07 -0400 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:36578 "EHLO plane.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751144AbaGUFUF (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jul 2014 01:20:05 -0400 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1X9615-0003wl-KO for git@vger.kernel.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2014 07:20:04 +0200 Received: from Dynamic-IP-1868710538.cable.net.co ([Dynamic-IP-1868710538.cable.net.co]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 2014 07:20:03 +0200 Received: from juandavid1707 by Dynamic-IP-1868710538.cable.net.co with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 2014 07:20:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 186.87.105.38 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/36.0.1985.125 Safari/537.36) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Duy Nguyen gmail.com> writes: > > Just a quick update for the enthusiasts. My branch file-watcher [1] > has got working per-user inotify support. It's a 20 patch series so > I'll refrain from spamming git vger for a while, even though it hurts > your eyes a lot less than what I have posted so far. The test suite > ran fine with it so it's not that buggy. It has new tests too, even > though real inotify is not tested in the new tests. Documentation is > there, either in .txt or comments. Using it is simple: > > $ mkdir ~/.watcher > $ git file-watcher --detach ~/.watcher > $ git config --global filewatcher.path $HOME/.watcher > Will this mean that Git would work faster with repositories with large number of files or commits? I am new into this topic, but I am trying to understand, any pointers are appreciated.