From: Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi>
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 05:57:35 GMT
Subject: Re: noob user, want checkins to all be forced to LF terminated lines
Message-ID: <20100731055735.GA19812@LK-Perkele-V2.elisa-laajakaista.fi>
In-Reply-To: <i30da5$84d$1@dough.gmane.org>

On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:45:36PM -0700, Walter Bright wrote:

> >[1] But upon restore, the working copy cache will be wrong
> 
> Why? Is it someplace else?

It is inside .git directory and will be caught by full recursive
backup. Unfortunately, it contains i-node numbers, which aren't
preserved through backup and restore.

The wrong i-node numbers would then confuse git (false positives
in modification detection). Fortunately, this data can be rebuilt
with single command (see below).
 
> >and needs to be rebuilt (git update-index --refresh).

-Ilari