From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: linux@horizon.com Subject: Re: [Census] So who uses git? Date: 1 Feb 2006 16:27:35 -0500 Message-ID: <20060201212735.18283.qmail@science.horizon.com> References: <81b0412b0602010810m3577263csed57ba75e0d6bb64@mail.gmail.com> Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Feb 01 22:29:41 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F4PW1-0003sb-Qm for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 01 Feb 2006 22:27:51 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422937AbWBAV1r (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Feb 2006 16:27:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932461AbWBAV1r (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Feb 2006 16:27:47 -0500 Received: from science.horizon.com ([192.35.100.1]:49215 "HELO science.horizon.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S932467AbWBAV1q (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Feb 2006 16:27:46 -0500 Received: (qmail 18284 invoked by uid 1000); 1 Feb 2006 16:27:35 -0500 To: linux@horizon.com, raa.lkml@gmail.com In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0602010810m3577263csed57ba75e0d6bb64@mail.gmail.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: > Inodes are either uselessor dangerous in cygwin (hash of an > absolute pathname on FAT). They may not even change after rm+touch. Yes, I just looked it up and found that out. I was hoping they used first block number like many Linux FSes have tried, in which case it would have worked, but if it's a hash of the path name, it's guaranteed not to change. And Linus' point is excellent, too: this feature is also useful for automated systems (like git-applypatch) that can be assumed to never forget to warn git ahead of time.