From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
To: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>,
Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: A few usability question about git diff --cached
Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 08:40:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vpqwsu2oyhj.fsf@bauges.imag.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071004161935.GC17487@fieldses.org> (J. Bruce Fields's message of "Thu\, 4 Oct 2007 12\:19\:35 -0400")
"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> writes:
>> The stat-information, and sha1sum are actually a cache, but they don't
>> have to be user-visible, except for speed.
>
> That's a big exception.--b.
Speed _is_ important, of course. But the user only benefits from
speed, he doesn't have to manipulate it explicitely. I may be
repeating myself, but "diff --cached" doesn't mean "diff using the
stat-cache", it means "diff using the cached _content_", which is
really unrelated from the stat-cache.
Mercurial also has fast diff (perhaps a bit slower that git, but same
order of magnitude), and has no user-visible index.
--
Matthieu
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-05 6:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-04 12:27 A few usability question about git diff --cached Paolo Ciarrocchi
2007-10-04 12:54 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-10-05 5:59 ` Miles Bader
2007-10-05 10:27 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-10-05 10:41 ` Miles Bader
2007-10-04 12:56 ` Miklos Vajna
2007-10-04 13:10 ` Paolo Ciarrocchi
2007-10-04 13:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-10-04 13:39 ` Paolo Ciarrocchi
2007-10-04 14:09 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-10-04 14:34 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-04 14:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-10-04 14:47 ` David Kastrup
2007-10-04 14:44 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-10-04 15:51 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-10-04 16:02 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-10-04 16:19 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-10-05 6:40 ` Matthieu Moy [this message]
2007-10-05 5:22 ` David Tweed
2007-10-04 15:49 ` Wincent Colaiuta
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