From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:55:28 GMT
Subject: Re: Strange "beagle" interaction..
Message-ID: <20071113215528.GA30695@glandium.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.9999.0711131241050.2786@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 12:56:19PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> Ok, I've made a bugzilla entry for this for the Fedora people, but I 
> thought I'd mention something I noticed yesterday but only tracked down 
> today: it seems like the beagle file indexing code is able to screw up git 
> in subtle ways.
> 
> I do not know exactly what happens, but the symptoms are random (and 
> quite hard-to-trigger) dirty index contents where git believes that some 
> set of files are not clean in the index.
> 
> I *suspect* that beagle is playing games with the file access times, 
> causing the ctime on disk to not match the ce_ctime in the index file. But 
> that's just a guess.
(...)

IIRC, beagle stores a bunch of useful information for itself in extended
attributes on indexed files. It is likely that it's that that is
tampering with the file stats.

Mike