From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Drew Northup <drew.northup@maine.edu>
Cc: ghazel@gmail.com, git@vger.kernel.org,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: git reset and ctime
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 11:51:03 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101206175102.GC6272@burratino> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1291657037.30271.17.camel@drew-northup.unet.maine.edu>
Drew Northup wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-12-03 at 18:51 -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
>> Interesting. Setting "[core] trustctime = false" in the repository
>> configuration could be a good solution (no performance downside I can
>> think of).
>
> It is worth noting that many file-based backup systems which do "online"
> backups (such as in use where I work) restore the atime by default at
> the expense of the ctime (logic being that the atime may have had value
> and the ctime changes either way--which may or may not be true) on unix
> style filesystems.
So have you tried putting "[core] trustctime = false" in /etc/gitconfig?
This is exactly what the setting is for, after all.
Ideas for making this easier to find (FAQ on the git wiki? advice from
porcelain when ctime-only changes happen?) would be welcome, of course.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-06 17:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-03 21:36 git reset and ctime ghazel
2010-12-04 0:51 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-12-04 1:39 ` ghazel
2010-12-04 1:47 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-12-04 2:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-12-06 17:37 ` Drew Northup
2010-12-06 17:51 ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2010-12-07 15:14 ` Drew Northup
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