On 6/25/08, Michael J Gruber <michaeljgruber+gmane@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 4) My idea is to eventually --assume-unchanged my whole repository, > > then write a cheesy daemon that uses the Win32 dnotify-equivalent to > > watch for files that get updated and then selectively > > --no-assume-unchanged files that it gets notified about. That would > > avoid the need to ever synchronously scan the whole repo for changes, > > thus making my git-Win32 experience much faster and more enjoyable. > > (This daemon ought to be possible to run on Linux as well, for similar > > improvements on gigantic repositories. Also note that TortoiseSVN for > > Windows does something similar to track file status updates, so this > > isn't *just* me being crazy.) > > Looks like users on slow NFS would profit, too. Hate to say it, but hg > feels faster on (slow) NFS than git. Yet I use git, for other reasons ;) Hmm, can you do dnotify over NFS? I'd like to know how hg goes any faster. As far as I can see, git is going as fast as can be without some kind of daemon or other magic. (Except for my point #3, which seems relatively minor.) Thanks, Avery -- 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
