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| author |  Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> | 2008-07-28 08:31:28 +0200 |
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| committer |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2008-07-28 23:26:25 -0700 |
| commit | 1ce4790bf5eeceb212f003fffcb36069c0ebb45e (patch) | |
| tree | 7cdb36f5416b0d94815c351c356ea16b7c4d1887 /Documentation | |
| parent | merge-base: die with an error message if not passed a commit ref (diff) | |
| download | tgif-1ce4790bf5eeceb212f003fffcb36069c0ebb45e.tar.xz | |
Make use of stat.ctime configurable
A new configuration variable 'core.trustctime' is introduced to
allow ignoring st_ctime information when checking if paths
in the working tree has changed, because there are situations where
it produces too much false positives. Like when file system crawlers
keep changing it when scanning and using the ctime for marking scanned
files.
The default is to notice ctime changes.
Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config.txt | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-update-index.txt | 5 |
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 1a13abc922..61c376057c 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -117,6 +117,13 @@ core.fileMode:: the working copy are ignored; useful on broken filesystems like FAT. See linkgit:git-update-index[1]. True by default. +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. + core.quotepath:: The commands that output paths (e.g. 'ls-files', 'diff'), when not given the `-z` option, will quote diff --git a/Documentation/git-update-index.txt b/Documentation/git-update-index.txt index 6b930bc163..1d9d81a702 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-update-index.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-update-index.txt @@ -323,6 +323,11 @@ from symbolic link to regular file. The command looks at `core.ignorestat` configuration variable. See 'Using "assume unchanged" bit' section above. +The command also looks at `core.trustctime` configuration variable. +It can be useful when the inode change time is regularly modified by +something outside Git (file system crawlers and backup systems use +ctime for marking files processed) (see linkgit:git-config[1]). + SEE ALSO -------- |