From: linux@horizon.com
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 21:27:35 GMT
Subject: Re: [Census] So who uses git?
Message-ID: <20060201212735.18283.qmail@science.horizon.com>
In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0602010810m3577263csed57ba75e0d6bb64@mail.gmail.com>

> Inodes are either uselessor dangerous  in cygwin (hash of an
> absolute pathname on FAT). They may not even change after rm+touch.

Yes, I just looked it up and found that out.  I was hoping they used
first block number like many Linux FSes have tried, in which case it
would have worked, but if it's a hash of the path name, it's
guaranteed not to change.

And Linus' point is excellent, too: this feature is also useful
for automated systems (like git-applypatch) that can be assumed to
never forget to warn git ahead of time.