On 9/25/2017 12:17 PM, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
Hi Kaartic,
On Sun, 24 Sep 2017, Kaartic Sivaraam wrote:
On Thursday 21 September 2017 10:02 AM, Jeff King wrote:
Some tools like IDEs or fancy editors may periodically run commands
like "git status" in the background to keep track of the state of the
repository.
I might be missing something, shouldn't the IDEs be encouraged to use
libgit2 instead? I thought it was meant for these use cases.
There are pros and cons. Visual Studio moved away from libgit2 e.g. to
support SSH (back then, libgit2 did not support spawning processes, I have
no idea whether that changed in the meantime).
There were other issues besides feature parity. The big one for VS
was that it moved the git computations into a separate process and
address space. You can't easily read/modify/write a 500MB .git/index
file into memory (with however many copies of the data that that
creates) in a 32-bit process.
