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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make use of stat.ctime configurable
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 12:46:15 -0700
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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?