On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote: > The point of my comment was that with Andy's definition of when > the "external tools" should trigger, that CPU serial number > embedder would _NOT_ trigger for a path when you switch branches > that have the same contents at that path. External tools can do > stupid things and that is what you are calling the rope. But > the case I am talking about is that we deliberately do _not_ > call external tools, so even if external tools can do sensible > things if given a chance to, they are not given a chance to do > so, and deciding not to call them in some cases is made by us. And that's a fairly acceptable limitation IMHO, which doesn't make the thing any less useful for many cases. We just need to document it appropriately. Nicolas - 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