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On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 08:49:22AM +0100, Robin Rosenberg wrote:

> Specifically the fields uid, gid, ctime, ino and dev are set to zero
> by JGit. Other implementations, eg. Git in cygwin are allegedly also
> somewhat incompatible with Git For Windows and on *nix platforms
> the resolution of the timestamps may differ.

This is an old commit, but I noticed a bug today...

> This change introduces a core.checkstat config option where the
> [...]
> +core.checkstat::
> [...]
> +	if (!strcmp(var, "core.statinfo")) {

One of these is not like the others. I didn't prepare a patch, though,
because I wasn't sure which it was supposed to be. A documentation bug
or a code bug? :)

-Peff