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From: "SZEDER Gábor" <szeder@ira.uka.de>
To: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] rerere: fix overeager gc
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 10:01:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100630080109.GA4264@neumann> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C2AE04E.9090901@viscovery.net>

Hi,

thank you both for your comments.


On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 08:12:30AM +0200, Johannes Sixt wrote:
> Am 6/29/2010 19:59, schrieb Junio C Hamano:
> > One possibility is to look at the timestamp of the directory itself
> > instead.  Then we can safely gc otherwise-unused "thisimage" file when
> > rerere is not in use.  I wonder if directory m_time timestamps are usable
> > for this purpose on non-POSIX platforms?
> 
> I don't think that will work at all: We only use fopen() to write
> thisimage, which only truncates the file, but doesn't modify mtime of the
> directory. Nor do we create any other (temporary) directory entries that
> would modify the mtime.

Indeed; on Linux I have:

drwxr-xr-x 2 szeder szeder 4096 2010-06-24 10:59 .git/rr-cache/13e67feeb07f97d6fccc2257d793d93ec4e730bf/

-rw-r--r-- 1 szeder szeder 3095 2010-06-30 04:56 .git/rr-cache/13e67feeb07f97d6fccc2257d793d93ec4e730bf/thisimage


> Would it be possible to update the timestamp of preimage every time it is
> used (e.g., in rerere.c:merge()), and check for that?

Will take a look.


Best,
Gábor

  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-30  8:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-29 11:38 [RFC PATCH] rerere: fix overeager gc SZEDER Gábor
2010-06-29 17:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-06-30  6:12   ` Johannes Sixt
2010-06-30  8:01     ` SZEDER Gábor [this message]
2010-06-30 15:22     ` Junio C Hamano
2010-06-30 15:40       ` Johannes Sixt
2010-07-01  9:36     ` [PATCH v2] " SZEDER Gábor
2010-07-01 10:10       ` Johannes Sixt
2010-07-01 11:07         ` [PATCH 1/2] mingw: utime() handles NULL times parameter SZEDER Gábor
2010-07-01 12:16           ` [PATCH 1/2 fixed] mingw_utime(): handle " Johannes Sixt
2010-07-01 11:07         ` [PATCH 2/2] rerere: fix overeager gc SZEDER Gábor
2010-07-01 16:27     ` [RFC PATCH] " Junio C Hamano
2010-07-02  5:49       ` Johannes Sixt
2010-07-02 17:25         ` Junio C Hamano
2010-07-05  6:02           ` Johannes Sixt
2010-07-08 14:35             ` [PATCH v4] " SZEDER Gábor
2010-07-09  0:06             ` [RFC PATCH] " Junio C Hamano
2010-07-12 23:42               ` [PATCH 1/2] mingw_utime(): handle NULL times parameter SZEDER Gábor
2010-07-12 23:42               ` [PATCH 2/2] rerere: fix overeager gc SZEDER Gábor
2010-07-13  0:40                 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-07-14 12:19                   ` SZEDER Gábor
2010-07-14 16:23                     ` Junio C Hamano
2010-07-14 18:33                       ` SZEDER Gábor
2010-07-08  6:27           ` [RFC PATCH] " Johannes Sixt

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