Subject: Re: What's new in git-gui.git

From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 22:39:33 -0400

Johannes Schindelin <[email-masked]> 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.