The major change here is to switch from named pipes to sockets. But somehow while doing this, I noticed a few other things (and others noticed some too): Fixed bugs in successful write testing Added a bit more doco Improved tests slightly Memory barriers .git vs .git/ from watchman one patch moved/squashed at Duy's suggestion (some of?) my spelling errors corrected David Turner (6): unpack-trees: preserve index extensions index-helper: kill mode index-helper: don't run if already running index-helper: autorun mode index-helper: optionally automatically run read-cache: config for waiting for index-helper Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy (10): read-cache.c: fix constness of verify_hdr() read-cache: allow to keep mmap'd memory after reading index-helper: new daemon for caching index and related stuff index-helper: add --strict daemonize(): set a flag before exiting the main process index-helper: add --detach read-cache: add watchman 'WAMA' extension Add watchman support to reduce index refresh cost index-helper: use watchman to avoid refreshing index with lstat() update-index: enable/disable watchman support .gitignore | 1 + Documentation/config.txt | 10 + Documentation/git-index-helper.txt | 64 +++++ Makefile | 22 ++ builtin/gc.c | 2 +- builtin/update-index.c | 11 + cache.h | 23 +- config.c | 10 + config.mak.uname | 1 + configure.ac | 8 + daemon.c | 2 +- dir.c | 23 +- dir.h | 6 + environment.c | 8 + git-compat-util.h | 18 ++ git.c | 35 ++- index-helper.c | 462 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ read-cache.c | 438 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- setup.c | 4 +- shm.c | 67 ++++++ shm.h | 23 ++ t/t7063-status-untracked-cache.sh | 22 ++ t/t7900-index-helper.sh | 69 ++++++ t/test-lib-functions.sh | 4 + unpack-trees.c | 1 + watchman-support.c | 135 +++++++++++ watchman-support.h | 7 + 27 files changed, 1454 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-) create mode 100644 Documentation/git-index-helper.txt create mode 100644 index-helper.c create mode 100644 shm.c create mode 100644 shm.h create mode 100755 t/t7900-index-helper.sh create mode 100644 watchman-support.c create mode 100644 watchman-support.h -- 2.4.2.767.g62658d5-twtrsrc -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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