Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Wed, 11 Jun 2008, Ben Lynn wrote: >> >> The only drawback is that I'm not sure how acceptable it is to write to >> the index on a read operation. Is this a big deal? > > Historically, we *never* did it. In fact, it was a big deal. These days we > do it opportunistically for "git diff" if we can, but making sure that it > all still works for a read-only access (think gitweb etc - the reader is Thanks for giving a good summary (I've been away), and I agree with your analysis of the situation. I do not see much need to _fix_ anything around this area, except your "smudging is not zero timestamp" update. -- 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
