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Re: [Monotone-devel] options for automate inventory
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Thomas Keller |
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Re: [Monotone-devel] options for automate inventory |
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Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:06:48 +0100 |
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William Uther schrieb:
>> --no-ignored --no-unchanged gives another factor of three increase in
>> speed.
>
> While I'm thinking of it, I wanted to post to record another idea I had...
>
> I don't know how many people use MacOS, but it has two features that might
> help here. The first is common to a number of systems - you can register
> to receive events when the filesystem changes. That is a private API on
> MacOS though, and it would require having a daemon running all the time.
> The second feature is directly more useful - there is a system daemon that
> listens to the first API and records all changes, fseventsd. You can
> request a list of all changes in the filesystems below a certain
> directory, since a certain time. The granularity is a little coarse -
> directories rather than files, and multi-second time increments. But that
> isn't a huge problem - you just scan the directories that might have
> changed, rather than everything.
I think inotify does the same on Linux. I don't know about Windows,
however I assume there has to be something similar, because
QFileSystemWatcher [0], which I plan to use in guitone as soon as I
fixed the restricted inventory output, works on all supported platforms ;)
Thomas.
[0] http://doc.trolltech.com/4.3/qfilesystemwatcher.html
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- [Monotone-devel] options for automate inventory, Stephen Leake, 2008/01/13
- Re: [Monotone-devel] options for automate inventory, Thomas Keller, 2008/01/13
- Re: [Monotone-devel] options for automate inventory, William Uther, 2008/01/13
- Re: [Monotone-devel] options for automate inventory, Thomas Keller, 2008/01/14
- Re: [Monotone-devel] options for automate inventory, Stephen Leake, 2008/01/15
- Re: [Monotone-devel] options for automate inventory, Thomas Keller, 2008/01/15
- [Monotone-devel] Re: options for automate inventory, Lapo Luchini, 2008/01/15
- Re: [Monotone-devel] options for automate inventory, Stephen Leake, 2008/01/15
- Re: [Monotone-devel] options for automate inventory, Nathaniel Smith, 2008/01/15
- Re: [Monotone-devel] options for automate inventory, Stephen Leake, 2008/01/15
Re: [Monotone-devel] options for automate inventory, Thomas Moschny, 2008/01/14