On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:35:24 -0800, Keith Packard <[email protected]> wrote: > Tracking directory mtime instead of just looking at the read-only bit > would let us skip directories that haven't seen any change in content.
We've had directory mtime for a long time. I added the check for the read-only bit afterwards to be able to avoid stats on a whole directory hierarchy, (since mtime doesn't propagate upward of course). > Tracking directory contents would let us easily detect name changes > (add/remove/rename). Do we want git tree objects for the directories? ... -Carl _______________________________________________ notmuch mailing list [email protected] http://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch
