From: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git: add --no-optional-locks option
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2017 17:01:11 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1506252671.8678.3.camel@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170921043214.pyhdsrpy4omy54rm@sigill.intra.peff.net>
On Thursday 21 September 2017 10:02 AM, Jeff King wrote:
> Some tools like IDEs or fancy editors may periodically run
> commands like "git status" in the background to keep track
> of the state of the repository.
I might be missing something, shouldn't the IDEs be encouraged to use
libgit2 instead? I thought it was meant for these use cases.
Note: I assume getting the status through libgit2 doesn't create an
index.lock file.
> 3. Ask "status" not to lock or write the index.
>
> This is easy to implement. The big downside is that any
> work done in refreshing the index for such a call is
> lost when the process exits. So a background process
> may end up re-hashing a changed file multiple times
> until the user runs a command that does an index
> refresh themselves.
>
> This patch implements the option 3.
So, if I get that correctly "git status --no-optional-locks" is a way
to get the "current" status without updating the on disk index file?
> +`GIT_OPTIONAL_LOCKS`::
> + If set to `0`, Git will avoid performing any operations which
> + require taking a lock and which are not required to complete the
> + requested operation.
The above sentence seems to be a little hard to interpret. How about,
If set to `0`, Git will complete the requested operation without
performing the optional sub-operations that require taking a lock.
---
Kaartic
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-24 11:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-21 4:32 [PATCH] git: add --no-optional-locks option Jeff King
2017-09-21 4:55 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-09-21 5:08 ` Jeff King
2017-09-21 5:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-09-21 18:25 ` Johannes Sixt
2017-09-22 4:25 ` Jeff King
2017-09-22 11:22 ` Jeff Hostetler
2017-09-22 15:04 ` Jeff King
2017-09-22 20:09 ` Stefan Beller
2017-09-22 21:25 ` Jeff King
2017-09-22 21:41 ` Stefan Beller
2017-09-23 3:34 ` Jeff King
2017-09-25 18:51 ` Stefan Beller
2017-09-27 6:44 ` Jeff King
2017-09-22 6:42 ` Daniel Santos
2017-09-22 16:04 ` Jeff King
2017-09-24 11:31 ` Kaartic Sivaraam [this message]
2017-09-25 16:17 ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-09-26 14:44 ` Jeff Hostetler
2017-09-25 16:10 ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-09-25 17:00 ` Jeff King
[not found] ` <79ed4c34-1727-7c1e-868a-1206902638ad@gmail.com>
2017-09-27 6:40 ` Jeff King
2017-09-27 13:50 ` Kaartic Sivaraam
2017-09-27 16:28 ` Jeff King
2017-09-27 6:54 ` [PATCH v2] " Jeff King
2017-09-28 16:15 ` Johannes Schindelin
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