Re: Update the tag database when a single source file is modified

Shlomy Reinstein <[email protected]> Wed, 25 Feb 2009 11:22:50 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.global.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> You can easily achieve it by changing gtags/gtags.c file especially in
> incremental() function.
> But it might be worthless. Though scanning tree seems to be redundant,
> it does not so take time. It is updating database to spend a lot of time.

Running "global -u" on my project tree, with NO changes in any of the
files, takes about 5 seconds. And I'm willing to run this each time I
save a file, which can be quite frequently.

> BSD Db library is not suitable for this usage. It is being examined to be
> going to replace the database system with another one in the future.
> --
> Shigio YAMAGUCHI <[email protected]>
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>

Thanks.

Shlomy