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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git: add --no-optional-locks option
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2017 18:17:12 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1.1709251816120.40514@virtualbox> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1506252671.8678.3.camel@gmail.com>

Hi Kaartic,

On Sun, 24 Sep 2017, Kaartic Sivaraam wrote:

> 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.

There are pros and cons. Visual Studio moved away from libgit2 e.g. to
support SSH (back then, libgit2 did not support spawning processes, I have
no idea whether that changed in the meantime).

Ciao,
Johannes

  reply	other threads:[~2017-09-25 16:17 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
2017-09-25 16:17   ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
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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