From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH] Improve the placement of core.trustctime in the documentation Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:23:42 -0700 Message-ID: <7vmyk1ky35.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <20080723164614.GB5283@blimp.local> <20080723191647.GF5283@blimp.local> <20080725055547.GA3699@blimp.local> <20080726153802.GA16868@blimp.local> <7v1w1f155p.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20080728063128.GA4234@blimp.local> <20080728162043.GG32184@machine.or.cz> <20080728214716.GB3721@blimp.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Petr Baudis , Johannes Schindelin , Linus Torvalds , Johannes Sixt , git@vger.kernel.org To: Alex Riesen X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jul 29 08:24:59 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KNidl-0002XS-Kf for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:24:58 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752262AbYG2GXx (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jul 2008 02:23:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752336AbYG2GXx (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jul 2008 02:23:53 -0400 Received: from a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([207.106.133.19]:34391 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752262AbYG2GXw (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jul 2008 02:23:52 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 684F9435DC; Tue, 29 Jul 2008 02:23:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (ip68-225-240-211.oc.oc.cox.net [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 75776435D8; Tue, 29 Jul 2008 02:23:44 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <20080728214716.GB3721@blimp.local> (Alex Riesen's message of "Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:47:16 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: E944177A-5D36-11DD-AB94-CE28B26B55AE-77302942!a-sasl-fastnet.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Alex Riesen writes: > Accidentally, it split a _chapter_ about a file data corrup... > conversion for a weird, but common operating system. > > Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen > --- > > Petr Baudis, Mon, Jul 28, 2008 18:20:43 +0200: >> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 08:31:28AM +0200, Alex Riesen wrote: >> > diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt >> > index 1a13abc..552c134 100644 >> > --- a/Documentation/config.txt >> > +++ b/Documentation/config.txt >> > @@ -149,6 +149,13 @@ core.safecrlf:: >> > `core.autocrlf`, git will reject the file. The variable can >> > be set to "warn", in which case git will only warn about an >> > irreversible conversion but continue the operation. >> > + >> > +core.trustctime:: >> > + If false, the ctime differences between the index and the >> > + working copy are ignored; useful when the inode change time >> > + is regularly modified by something outside Git (file system >> > + crawlers and some backup systems). >> > + See linkgit:git-update-index[1]. True by default. >> > + >> > CRLF conversion bears a slight chance of corrupting data. >> > autocrlf=true will convert CRLF to LF during commit and LF to >> >> Somehow, this particular position of the new hunk does not feel like the >> best choice. ;-) >> > > It's alphabetical. Why? Oh, shit... Screw alphabetical Yeah, I think it makes sense to put this after core.filemode.