On 3/16/07, Marco Costalba <mcostalba@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
*The most important thing for a libgit to be used by qgit is reentrancy*
Another crtitical feature is that this call to git-rev-list-like
function MUST be non-blocking.
Reading a big repo could take many seconds, also more then 10 seconds
in cold cache case for Linux tree, as example. Getting the history of
a file ('git rev-list -- /path/to/file) it's also very slow.
There is no way that a GUI tool is allowed to *freeze* for that amount
of time. Currently, because an external process is forked when running
'git rev-list' all the problem is happly handled by the kernel
scheduler and the QProcess callback mechanism (based on select()). In
case of a libified git-rev-list this could be an issue.
Marco
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