From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 17:51:42 GMT
Subject: Re: repo consistency under crashes and power failures?
Message-ID: <20130715175142.GC14690@google.com>
In-Reply-To: <rmiy597iujc.fsf@fnord.ir.bbn.com>

Greg Troxel wrote:

> Alternatively, is there somewhere a first-principles analysis vs POSIX
> specs (such as fsyncing object files before updating refs to point to
> them, which I realize has performance negatives)?

You might be interested in the 'core.fsyncobjectfiles' setting.
git-config(1) has details.

Thanks and hope that helps,
Jonathan