From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make use of stat.ctime configurable
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 12:46:42 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v1w1f155p.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080726153802.GA16868@blimp.local> (Alex Riesen's message of "Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:38:02 +0200")
Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:
> because there are situations where it produces too much false
> positives. Like when file system crawlers keep changing it when
> scanning and using the ctime for marking scanned files.
This justification is good and I am very inclined to advocate for its
inclusion in 1.6.0, but any new configuration needs to be in the
documentation.
It appears there is "gui.trustmtime"; shouldn't this be called
"core.trustctime" or something?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-27 19:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-21 17:35 [PATCH] Fix update-index --refresh for submodules if stat(2) returns st_size 0 Alex Riesen
2008-07-21 18:20 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-21 19:43 ` Alex Riesen
2008-07-21 23:26 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-22 8:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-22 16:49 ` Alex Riesen
2008-07-22 7:17 ` Johannes Sixt
2008-07-22 16:46 ` Alex Riesen
2008-07-22 16:59 ` Johannes Sixt
2008-07-22 17:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-22 19:39 ` [PATCH] Build configuration to skip ctime for modification test Alex Riesen
2008-07-22 20:17 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-22 20:31 ` Alex Riesen
2008-07-23 0:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-23 16:46 ` Alex Riesen
2008-07-23 16:59 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-23 19:16 ` Alex Riesen
2008-07-25 2:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-25 5:55 ` Alex Riesen
2008-07-26 0:57 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-26 15:38 ` [PATCH] Make use of stat.ctime configurable Alex Riesen
2008-07-27 19:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-27 19:46 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-07-28 6:31 ` Alex Riesen
2008-07-28 16:04 ` David Brown
2008-07-28 16:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-28 21:49 ` Alex Riesen
2008-07-29 1:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-29 1:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-29 1:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-29 1:41 ` David Brown
2008-07-29 2:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-29 10:45 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-29 1:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-29 2:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-29 10:49 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-28 16:20 ` Petr Baudis
2008-07-28 21:47 ` [PATCH] Improve the placement of core.trustctime in the documentation Alex Riesen
2008-07-29 6:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-24 19:00 ` [PATCH] Do not use ctime if file mode is not used Alex Riesen
2008-07-23 16:00 ` git svn throws locale related error when built from source Anton Mostovoy
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