Re: git on afs

[Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>]

On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Todd T. Fries wrote:

> 2) git presumes that DTYPE(de) != DT_DIR .. means the dirent is not a dir
>   this is not true for afs
>
> I have been using this to sync several git trees, including linux-2.6 for the
> past week without issues writing to a local afs server.
>
> What do you guys think?
>
> diff --git a/dir.c b/dir.c
> index eb6c3ab..a3e53a5 100644
> --- a/dir.c
> +++ b/dir.c
> @@ -487,9 +487,19 @@ static int read_directory_recursive(struct dir_struct *dir, const char *path, co
> 			    && in_pathspec(fullname, baselen + len, simplify))
> 				dir_add_ignored(dir, fullname, baselen + len);
> 			if (exclude != dir->show_ignored) {
> -				if (!dir->show_ignored || DTYPE(de) != DT_DIR) {
> +				if (!dir->show_ignored)

you're missing an open bracket                          ^^^

> 					continue;
> 				}

or delete this one             ^^^

> +				if (DTYPE(de) == DT_UNKNOWN) {
> +					struct stat st;
> +					if (lstat(fullname, &st))
> +						continue;
> +					if (!S_ISDIR(st.st_mode))
> +						continue;
> +				} else {
> +					if (DTYPE(de) != DT_DIR)
> +						continue;
> +				}
> 			}
>
> 			switch (DTYPE(de)) {

seems sane to me.

If no one else brings up any issues, you should retest and submit
a signed patch with a good comment. Use -s with git-commit.
Then git-format-patch will produce the proper output.

-brandon