Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, 29 May 2007, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > > > Apparently the Linux folks have this new fangled inotify thing that is > > also good at telling applications about changed files. It seems the hg > > folks are using it to speed up "hg status" by having a background daemon > > keep track of which files are dirty, and which aren't. > > An SCM which runs a background process? Please, no. Well, not required. Making it required to make things work is clearly insane. But letting a user optionally start a background process to monitor their working directory and cache dirty flags for files may be faster for some users on some systems and some workflows. And it could make git-gui more responsive. If git-gui starts/stops the "background process" along with its window opening/closing, who cares that its running? Especially if it can be enabled/disabled by a little checkbox thingy? > Next thing is, you have a daemon running which permanently scans your > source code for copynotsoright violations. I won't. Maybe a future employer of yours might... ;-) -- Shawn. - 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
