On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 09:29:45AM +0200, rghetta wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 20:13 -0700, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> > But, the file is sitting right there on the filesystem, and the hook
> > can run arbitrary code. For instance, it could peek at the file to
> > see whether it looks like it's binary.
> I'm a bit worried about efficency, here. Add already reads the file ? If
> yes, then monotone will read the file twice, and this could have a
> noticeable impact on add performance.
No, add doesn't read the file, so there's no duplicated work.
-- Nathaniel
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