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From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
To: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Cc: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>,
	Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>,
	"Michael P. Soulier" <msoulier@digitaltorque.ca>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: having to pull twice
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 20:49:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080925184942.GA3959@blimp.localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200809250905.09646.trast@student.ethz.ch>

Thomas Rast, Thu, Sep 25, 2008 09:05:02 +0200:
> Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> > "Michael P. Soulier" <msoulier@digitaltorque.ca> wrote:
> > > I'm finding this happening from time to time.
> > > 
> > > soulierm@espresso:~/work/mitel-msl-tug$ git pull
> > ...
> > > error: Entry 'mitel-msl-tug.spec' not uptodate. Cannot merge.
> [fixed by 'git status's index refresh]
> > 
> > Time or dev/ino skew in the index file vs. what we read from stat.
> > 
> > Running git-status rematched the index file to the working directory,
> > and during that rematch it noticed the file wasn't actually modified.
> 
> This keeps coming up every week or so... maybe git-merge should
> attempt to refresh the index automatically?  Of course it's an
> expensive operation, but if you really want to do the merge you have
> to bite that bullet anyway.

Maybe set "core.trustctime" for this repo to false?

  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-25 18:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-25  0:58 having to pull twice Michael P. Soulier
2008-09-25  1:01 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-09-25  7:05   ` Thomas Rast
2008-09-25 18:49     ` Alex Riesen [this message]
2008-09-25 21:28       ` Michael P. Soulier
2008-09-25 23:25     ` Miklos Vajna
2008-09-27 14:16       ` Thomas Rast
2008-09-28 15:11         ` Miklos Vajna
2008-09-28 15:26           ` Thomas Rast
2008-09-29 15:00             ` Miklos Vajna
2008-10-03 13:02           ` [PATCH] builtin-merge: refresh the index before calling a strategy Miklos Vajna

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