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Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:

> Junio C Hamano, Mon, Jul 28, 2008 08:44:52 +0200:
>> Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>> > t2103-update-index-ignore-missing.sh still broken on Windows because
>> > of stat.st_size being 0 for directories there.
>> 
>> I recall we did not reach a useful conclusion of that discussion.
>
> Why isn't the proposed patch useful? (and would it be possible to make
> the answer out of plain, small and short words?)

Can you answer out of plain, small and short words why the proposed patch
is correct without unwanted side effects, not just "this seems to solve
the particular issue for me but I don't know if it has unintended side
effects"?