Junio C Hamano wrote: > Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenb...@dewire.com> writes:
> That configurability is a slipperly slope to drag us into giving users > more complexity that does not help them very much, I suspect. > > Earlier somebody mentioned "size and mtime is often enough", so I > think a single option core.looseStatInfo (substitute "loose" with > short, minimum or whatever adjective that is more appropriate---I am > not good at picking phrases, it sounds to me a way to more loosely > define stat info cleanliness than we usually do) that makes us > ignore all fields (regardless of their zero-ness) other than those > two fields might not be a bad way to go. At one point, I used to build (and test) the MSVC version of git on cygwin, which leads to exactly the same problem. So, this is not just an EGit/JGit vs c-git issue, although there can't be many people that will have this problem. (Mixing the MinGW and cygwin versions on the same repo will also have this problem). I had a patch which, essentially, did what you suggest above; ie ignore everything other than size and mtime, *including* ignoring the zero-ness in the index. (I just don't understand why you would think of doing otherwise!! ;-) ). As part of that patch, I also suppressed the "empty diff" output that used to be shown for stat-dirty files (that's been fixed now right?), otherwise using gitk was a pain. [BTW, given the "schizophrenic stat" functions on cygwin, you can have this problem with the cygwin version of git - all on it's lonesome!] I can't help with naming, BTW, since I called the config variable "core.ramsay-stat". :-P > > I do not offhand know if such a loose mode is too simple and make it > excessively risky, though. I suspect it would be fine ... *however*, I never sent my patch because I didn't think there would be many idiots^H^H^H^H^H^H pioneers like me! :-D ATB, Ramsay Jones -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
