Re: Generation of tags for the current project on the fly

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: John Yates <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2018 20:50:02 -0500
> Cc: Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden>, Emacs developers <address@hidden>
> 
> > > > Invoking 'find' will always be faster, as it's optimized for
> > > > traversing directory trees.
> > >
> > > 'git ls-files' will probably be faster still.
> >
> > Yes, but that only works in Git repositories.
> 
> The context of this discussion is _large_ projects.  My sense is
> that git's efficiency relative to other SCM technologies means
> that the larger the project the higher the likelihood of use git.

That's definitely true for personal and FLOSS environments, but not
elsewhere.  Where I earn my paycheck, they use TFS and even
ClearCase(!).