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List:       git
Subject:    Re: [PATCH] add GIT_FAST_STAT mode for Cygwin
From:       "Alex Riesen" <raa.lkml () gmail ! com>
Date:       2008-09-24 15:09:22
Message-ID: 81b0412b0809240809y4daa990cl5494d7b7398353f0 () mail ! gmail ! com
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2008/9/24 Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>:
> Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2008/9/24 Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>:
>>
>> > Frankly, I don't have strong preference here neither for making this
>> > fast version always work nor leave it conditional (perhaps, with the
>> > default setting use-fast-version). So, whatever the majority decides
>> > is fine with me.
>>
>> I'm voting for compile-time configuration then.
>
> To be consistent with everything else, compile-time sounds like
> what we should do, its how just about every other part of Git
> is configured.
>
> However Dmitry pointed out that he has cases where this faster
> function doesn't work correctly, and it was path specific. Some
> areas of the filesystem work, others don't, on the same system.

Huh?! What are they? What paths require cygwin's handling
which aren't handled already? (the absolute paths are handled).
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