From: Matthijs Kooijman <matthijs@stdin.nl>
Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2012 18:34:11 GMT
Subject: Re: Git does not handle changing inode numbers well
Message-ID: <20120808183411.GT21274@login.drsnuggles.stderr.nl>
In-Reply-To: <7vboiltglr.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hi Junio,

> -	if (ce->ce_ino != (unsigned int) st->st_ino)
> +	if (trust_inum && ce->ce_ino != (unsigned int) st->st_ino)
>  		changed |= INODE_CHANGED;

I just tried this with 1.7.10 (that is, I deleted these two lines to
mimic trust_inum being false) and it indeed fixes my problem.

(I'll probably won't be implementing the full patch, though, I've
already figured out how to fix my filesystem instead)

Gr.

Matthijs