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From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "SZEDER Gábor" <szeder@ira.uka.de>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] rerere: fix overeager gc
Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2010 08:02:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C31757A.1000207@viscovery.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vmxu923up.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Am 7/2/2010 19:25, schrieb Junio C Hamano:
> If anything, "preimage" that has newer timestamp than "postimage" feels
> wrong,...

Indeed; I agree.

> If we for whatever reason trust placing an extra timestamp on a regular
> file more than using directory timestamp (which I think may be a valid
> concern from portability point of view),

Windows behaves well in this regard. Writing of thisimage must be
converted to lockfile infrastructure, of course.

> I'd rather see "preimage"
> timestamp to keep track of the time when we _first_ encountered the
> particular conflict, and "postimage" used for recording the time when we
> saw the conflict most recently.

That would be fine, too.

-- Hannes

  reply	other threads:[~2010-07-05  6:02 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
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 [this message]
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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