Hi, On Thu, 2 Mar 2006, Alex Riesen wrote: > On 3/2/06, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> 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.) > > me too. It crashes everywhere here. > > > > 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. > > > > How can it help with 5? Less accesses to index? Exactly. 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