From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: git bugs Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:53:27 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <832adb090806100141n69c086a2v2f59fe94b2f4ead3@mail.gmail.com> <832adb090806101904k5eba3bd6p277c955b1782afbe@mail.gmail.com> <832adb090806101931y754fa6b7nfcb58a9c34f0c582@mail.gmail.com> <832adb090806102258v3fd63605p8c45513690b78fe8@mail.gmail.com> <832adb090806102318k5727bb06p6c3211a6aebbfbe9@mail.gmail.com> <832adb090806111052p32a750c2n5f2d43e0ed1b910d@mail.gmail.com> <832adb090806111148u5e13e9c5g7afc5b013e6f1223@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Junio C Hamano , Daniel Barkalow , Git Mailing List To: Ben Lynn X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jun 11 20:56:30 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K6VUg-0008Ve-QK for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:56:27 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1765381AbYFKSzc (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:55:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754869AbYFKSza (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:55:30 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:48583 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1765381AbYFKSz3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:55:29 -0400 Received: from imap1.linux-foundation.org (imap1.linux-foundation.org [140.211.169.55]) by smtp1.linux-foundation.org (8.14.2/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id m5BIrT8d001735 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:53:30 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by imap1.linux-foundation.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id m5BIrRKG012343; Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:53:28 -0700 In-Reply-To: <832adb090806111148u5e13e9c5g7afc5b013e6f1223@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (LFD 962 2008-03-14) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.371 required=5 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.4-osdl_revision__1.47__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: lf$Revision: 1.188 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 140.211.169.13 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Wed, 11 Jun 2008, Ben Lynn wrote: > > The only drawback is that I'm not sure how acceptable it is to write to > the index on a read operation. Is this a big deal? Historically, we *never* did it. In fact, it was a big deal. These days we do it opportunistically for "git diff" if we can, but making sure that it all still works for a read-only access (think gitweb etc - the reader is *not* necessarily the owner of the archive at all!) So I really prefer not to. But you can take it up with Junio if you think it can be a big deal. Linus