Re: git bugs

On Wed, 11 Jun 2008, Ben Lynn wrote:

The only drawback is that I'm not sure how acceptable it is to write to 
the index on a read operation. Is this a big deal?

Historically, we *never* did it. In fact, it was a big deal. These days we 
do it opportunistically for "git diff" if we can, but making sure that it 
all still works for a read-only access (think gitweb etc - the reader is 
*not* necessarily the owner of the archive at all!)

So I really prefer not to. But you can take it up with Junio if you think 
it can be a big deal.

		Linus