Re: [PATCH] git: add --no-optional-locks option

Hi Kaartic,

On Sun, 24 Sep 2017, Kaartic Sivaraam wrote:

On Thursday 21 September 2017 10:02 AM, Jeff King wrote:

quoted

Some tools like IDEs or fancy editors may periodically run commands
like "git status" in the background to keep track of the state of the
repository.

I might be missing something, shouldn't the IDEs be encouraged to use
libgit2 instead? I thought it was meant for these use cases.

There are pros and cons. Visual Studio moved away from libgit2 e.g. to
support SSH (back then, libgit2 did not support spawning processes, I have
no idea whether that changed in the meantime).

Ciao,
Johannes