From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnuvola.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: vc-*-root finctions
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 11:50:59 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200802211951.m1LJp00n016583@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv7igyru24.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:33:57 -0500")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> > Which would be wrong. git might be fast, but it takes a long time if it
> > has to read the inodes from disk or NFS on a big tree (which happens
> > every morning or after a big compilation job).
>
> BTW, now that I think a bit more about it: the `dir-status' function can
> almost always be synchronous (and never contact a remote repository).
> In PCL-CVS that function is called `cvs-quickdir', which I consider to
> be the main entry point.
I am not sure I understand what you are saying...
Never contacting the remote repository does not mean that it won't block
for a long time, on big trees it happens even with the current crop of
fast VCSes.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-21 19:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-19 22:06 vc-*-root finctions Stefan Monnier
2008-02-20 11:12 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-02-20 17:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-20 18:21 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-02-20 18:50 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-02-21 15:33 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-02-21 18:35 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-02-21 19:03 ` Tom Tromey
2008-02-21 20:06 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-02-21 19:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-21 19:01 ` Tom Tromey
2008-02-21 20:01 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-02-21 19:50 ` Dan Nicolaescu [this message]
2008-02-22 14:41 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-02-22 15:42 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-02-22 17:34 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-02-22 19:02 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-02-22 2:42 ` Mike Mattie
2008-02-20 19:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-21 15:36 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-02-21 16:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-22 14:54 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-02-22 16:50 ` Stefan Monnier
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