From: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
To: Ben Peart <peartben@gmail.com>
Cc: git <git@vger.kernel.org>, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Ben Peart <benpeart@microsoft.com>,
Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>,
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>,
David Turner <David.Turner@twosigma.com>,
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] Fast git status via a file system watcher
Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 09:59:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP8UFD3R0dEsX7BtzYoSmvaKTZYsm9=bpQsu0jEk2aKm83z-2A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ab37d437-2a4e-b6ed-621f-5978083cd15b@gmail.com>
On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 3:55 PM, Ben Peart <peartben@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 5/24/2017 6:54 AM, Christian Couder wrote:
>>>
>>> A new git hook (query-fsmonitor) must exist and be enabled
>>> (core.fsmonitor=true) that takes a time_t formatted as a string and
>>> outputs to stdout all files that have been modified since the requested
>>> time.
>>
>> Is there a reason why there is a new hook, instead of a
>> "core.fsmonitorquery" config option to which you could pass whatever
>> command line with options?
>
> A hook is a simple and well defined way to integrate git with another
> process. If there is some fixed set of arguments that need to be passed to
> a file system monitor (beyond the timestamp stored in the index extension),
> they can be encoded in the integration script like I've done in the Watchman
> integration sample hook.
Yeah, but a hook must also be called everytime git wants to
communicate with the file system monitor. And we could perhaps get a
speed up if we could have only one long running process to communicate
with the file system monitor.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-31 7:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-18 20:13 [PATCH v2 0/6] Fast git status via a file system watcher Ben Peart
2017-05-18 20:13 ` [PATCH v2 1/6] bswap: add 64 bit endianness helper get_be64 Ben Peart
2017-05-18 20:13 ` [PATCH v2 2/6] dir: make lookup_untracked() available outside of dir.c Ben Peart
2017-05-18 20:13 ` [PATCH v2 3/6] fsmonitor: teach git to optionally utilize a file system monitor to speed up detecting new or changed files Ben Peart
2017-05-19 15:33 ` Ben Peart
2017-05-20 10:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-05-24 12:30 ` Christian Couder
2017-05-18 20:13 ` [PATCH v2 4/6] fsmonitor: add test cases for fsmonitor extension Ben Peart
2017-05-20 16:55 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2017-05-18 20:13 ` [PATCH v2 5/6] fsmonitor: add documentation for the " Ben Peart
2017-05-20 11:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-05-20 12:10 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-05-22 16:18 ` Ben Peart
2017-05-22 17:28 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-05-25 13:49 ` Ben Peart
2017-05-18 20:13 ` [PATCH v2 6/6] fsmonitor: add a sample query-fsmonitor hook script for Watchman Ben Peart
2017-05-24 13:12 ` Christian Couder
2017-05-26 9:47 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-05-26 16:02 ` Ben Peart
2017-05-25 21:05 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-05-24 10:54 ` [PATCH v2 0/6] Fast git status via a file system watcher Christian Couder
2017-05-25 13:55 ` Ben Peart
2017-05-27 6:57 ` Christian Couder
2017-05-30 18:05 ` Ben Peart
2017-05-30 20:33 ` Christian Couder
2017-05-30 23:11 ` Ben Peart
2017-05-31 7:37 ` Christian Couder
2017-05-31 7:59 ` Christian Couder [this message]
2017-05-31 13:37 ` Ben Peart
2017-05-31 14:10 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
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