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| author |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2011-11-10 09:10:51 -0800 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2011-11-10 09:10:51 -0800 |
| commit | c444c16589f95ac22d8e3ffe603cd7f0613512ce (patch) | |
| tree | 31d2e0c2a77344201af6f3ee5427f47218dec9bb /Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt | |
| parent | Merge 'build-in git-mktree' (diff) | |
| parent | Move 'builtin-*' into a 'builtin/' subdirectory (diff) | |
| download | tgif-c444c16589f95ac22d8e3ffe603cd7f0613512ce.tar.xz | |
Merge "Move 'builtin-*' into a 'builtin/' subdirectory"
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diff --git a/Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt b/Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt index 48bb97f0b1..53aa0c82c2 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt @@ -42,10 +42,12 @@ compared, but this is not enabled by default because this member is not stable on network filesystems. With `USE_NSEC` compile-time option, `st_mtim.tv_nsec` and `st_ctim.tv_nsec` members are also compared, but this is not enabled by default -because the value of this member becomes meaningless once the -inode is evicted from the inode cache on filesystems that do not -store it on disk. - +because in-core timestamps can have finer granularity than +on-disk timestamps, resulting in meaningless changes when an +inode is evicted from the inode cache. See commit 8ce13b0 +of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git +([PATCH] Sync in core time granuality with filesystems, +2005-01-04). Racy git -------- |