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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] read-cache.c: fix timestamp comparison
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 19:06:14 +0000 (GMT)
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Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
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Hi,

On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >
> > The mtime recorded in the cache entry is not time_t anymore but of 
> > type (unsigned int).  This casts the comparison and also adds fuzz 
> > factor of 1 second.
> 
> I really don't think this is the right fix.

Junio, have you tried Hannes' fix (using ln instead of cp -p)?  I would 
not be surprised if the same happened on Linux as on Windows, only much 
rarer, since Linux is so darned fast...

Ciao,
Dscho