Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <[email protected]> writes: > If an entry is "watched", git lets an external program decide if the > entry is modified or not. It's more like --assume-unchanged, but > designed to be controlled by machine. > > We are running out of on-disk ce_flags, so instead of extending > on-disk entry format again, "watched" flags are in-core only and > stored as extension instead.
I wonder if this would be a good use-case for EWAH bitmaps? Presumably most users would end up having only a few large ranges of files that are being watched. Quite possibly most users would watch *all* files. -- Thomas Rast [email protected] -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
