Re: [Census] So who uses git?

On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 01:25:08PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:

So we could speed it up on cygwin (and yes, it would speed git up a lot 
even on Linux, but since the cached lstat() case is so fast anyway, I 
doubt a lot of Linux users care - the biggest win would be on a cold-cache 
tree).  But it would require that you explicitly _mark_ the files you edit 
some way.

You couldn't depend on a combination of lstat's and some kind of
filesystem change notifications?

--b.