Re: vc-*-root finctions

[Dan Nicolaescu]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

  > > Which would be wrong.  git might be fast, but it takes a long time if it
  > > has to read the inodes from disk or NFS on a big tree (which happens
  > > every morning or after a big compilation job).
  > 
  > BTW, now that I think a bit more about it: the `dir-status' function can
  > almost always be synchronous (and never contact a remote repository).
  > In PCL-CVS that function is called `cvs-quickdir', which I consider to
  > be the main entry point.

I am not sure I understand what you are saying... 
Never contacting the remote repository does not mean that it won't block
for a long time, on big trees it happens even with the current crop of
fast VCSes.