Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Ben Peart <peartben@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> On 9/20/2017 9:46 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: >>> Ben Peart <peartben@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >>> >>>> Lets see how my ascii art skills do at describing this: >>> >>> Your ascii art is fine. If you said upfront that the capital >>> letters signify points in time, lower letters are file-touching >>> events, and time flows from left to right, it would have been >>> perfect ;-) >> >> Rats, so close and yet... ;-) > > Nah, sorry for forgetting to add "... but I could guess that was the > case after reading a few paragraphs, at which point I rewound and > started reading from the beginning, and it was crystal clear." > >> Yes, I suppose we _could_ add a 2nd bit (and then add the logic to set >> that bit every time a fsmonitor change was made) but I don't see that >> it really buys us anything useful. The force write flag in >> update-index is off by default and the only scenario we have that >> someone would set it is for test cases where the perf of writing out >> the index when it is not needed just doesn't matter. > > I tend to agree now. > > My reaction primarily came from ... oops. please ignore the last paragraph, or transplant it to the other thread X-<.
