From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753164Ab0CBBU7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Mar 2010 20:20:59 -0500 Received: from e7.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.137]:50034 "EHLO e7.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752888Ab0CBBU4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Mar 2010 20:20:56 -0500 Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 17:20:55 -0800 From: "Paul E. McKenney" To: James Cloos Cc: Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, zippel@linux-m68k.org, mingo@elte.hu, akpm@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] kconfig: place git SHA1 in .config output if in git tree Message-ID: <20100302012055.GK6758@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reply-To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com References: <20100301042249.GA12289@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20100301164800.GC6758@linux.vnet.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15+20070412 (2007-04-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 03:46:26PM -0500, James Cloos wrote: > >>>>> "Paul" == Paul E McKenney writes: > > Paul> Agreed! The "-dirty" modifier for the case of changes not yet > Paul> checked into git looks especially helpful. > > Except that the script calls »git update-index --refresh --unmerged« > and »git diff-index --name-only HEAD«, both of which are painfully > slow and resource intensive. > > I'd hate to have that run every time I make a kernel. Good point... Should we have an environment variable that controls this behavior? Thanx, Paul