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Re: A project-files implementation for Git projects


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: A project-files implementation for Git projects
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2019 05:27:41 +0300

> From: Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2019 21:56:11 +0300
> 
> Overall, I'm not 100% sure that we should use VC backend action here 
> because it seems like we'll be fighting an impedance mismatch between 
> what Git thinks its files are and what we want to see in the list of 
> project files. We probably want to use Git because it's fast and 
> flexible, but other VCSes are going to be less helpful. So if I were 
> writing this myself I'd create a "fast path" for Git repos, and delegate 
> to 'find' otherwise.

You seem to be ignoring what I wrote about 'find' being significantly
slower on non-Posix platforms (perhaps on all non-GNU/Linux
platforms).



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