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From: Drew Noakes <drew@drewnoakes.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Detecting when bulk file-system operations complete
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2021 14:39:37 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJd66x6XT7m5Njg2kRyGJ80rU6WNcLifijS98=onJeBz+74rrA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hi,

I develop IDE tooling that watches a repo's workspace and reacts to changes.

Bulk file-system changes (i.e. branch switch, rebase, merge,
cherry-pick) trigger lots of file system events, and my tooling should
ignore intermediary updates. Currently I debounce events with a fixed
time span, but would like a more reliable and performant approach to
scheduling this reactive work.

Can this be done by monitoring the GITDIR in some way? For example, is
there a file that's present when these operations are in flight, and
which is removed when they complete?

If an operation is interrupted (i.e. merge or rebase that hits a
conflict) my tooling should consider the bulk operation as complete.
This means that detecting a git-rebase-todo file or
rebase-merge/rebase-apply folder is not adequate.

Any help appreciated. Thanks!

Drew.

             reply	other threads:[~2021-03-31  3:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-31  3:39 Drew Noakes [this message]
2021-03-31 16:03 ` Detecting when bulk file-system operations complete Philip Oakley
2021-04-01 13:10   ` Derrick Stolee
2021-04-02 15:02     ` Jeff Hostetler

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