Git, the D package manager

[Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d]

On 2015-02-03 22:02, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:

> Second generation build algorithms are centered around *not* scanning,
> but taking advantage of modern OSes providing APIs for file change
> notification. Rather than scan the whole source tree every time, it
> takes the changeset as input -- either from the OS, or from some other
> source of information. By leveraging OS features, we can obtain this
> info on an as-needed basis instead of an O(n) scan.

Does this require some kind of daemon running in the background?

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/Jacob Carlborg