From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "Gumbel, Matthew K" <matthew.k.gumbel@intel.com>,
"git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] commit: Optimize number of lstat() calls
Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2017 11:42:56 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1702041142320.3496@virtualbox> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqd1ey5shc.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
Hi Junio,
On Fri, 3 Feb 2017, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
>
> > I could imagine that there is a third option we should consider, too: only
> > lstat() and update the paths that match the pathspec(s) provided on the
> > command line (this is the semantic meaning of the --only option, after
> > all: "I am only interested in these paths as far as this commit is
> > concerned"). What do you think?
>
> I wondered that myself when I read the first message from Matthew
> and noticed that we always refresh the entire index. But if it is
> OK to leave the entire index un-refreshed, that would even be
> simpler ;-)
Hah! You're right, that would be much simpler ;-)
Ciao,
Johannes
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-02-04 10:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-03 23:22 [PATCH] commit: Optimize number of lstat() calls Gumbel, Matthew K
2017-02-03 23:38 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-02-04 6:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-02-04 0:35 ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-02-04 7:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-02-04 10:42 ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
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