Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: netsync doesn't do anything

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 06:05:11PM -0500, Matthew A. Nicholson wrote:
> Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> >As for "status" and "commit" taking that long, I assume it's because
> >we currently read the entire working copy off of disk scanning for
> >changes, and you're waiting on IO.  It's entirely possible, even
> >straightforward, to fix this, and let people use something more like
> >CVS's timestamps to detect differences; just someone needs to write
> >it...
> 
> But please don't make any timestamp stuff the default (at least not like 
> make).

Of course not!

How about:

  function working_dir_change_detection_mode()
    return "reckless"
  end

?  ;-)

-- Nathaniel

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