Hi, On Thu, 2 Mar 2006, Alex Riesen wrote: > 1. opened and mmaped files can't be removed or renamed > (caused workaround with reading index in memory) It was not the locking which caused the workaround. It was the not-working. (I still have to find a Windows machine where git-whatchanged does not segfault without NO_MMAP.) > 2. command can safely contain only one argument > (breaks and complicates passing things between processes) > 3. no fork > (slows down and complicates passing things between processes) > 4. non-unix permissions model > (breaks x-attr) > 5. real slow filesystems and caching > (makes everything slow. I noticed I'm trying to avoid git status!). > Caused workaround with manual checkout) > 6. real slow program startup > (makes everything slow, eventually may cause everything being put > in one super-executable, just to avoid spawning new processes, > with all associated problems. Makes scripting harder) Except for (4), these issues should be resolvable by the libifying effort. Ciao, Dscho - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html