From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2010 18:36:21 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] teach update-index --refresh about --data-unchanged
Message-ID: <20101103183621.GA14019@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <7vzktqwbob.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 10:37:40AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com> writes:

>> When a repository has been copied with rsync, or cloned using
>> a volume manager, the index can be incorrect even though the
>> data is unchanged.  This new flag tells update-index --refresh
>> that it is not necessary to reread the data contents.
>
> I know our traditional attitude towards the plumbing commands have been
> "give them long enough rope and let users hang themselves", but this
> particular rope feels a bit too long for my taste.

Pete, I think you mentioned the possibility of a special-case tool for
contrib/ that just updates the inode, device number, and ctime fields?
That sounds a little less worrying to use, as plumbing.