From: Toralf Förster Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2012 12:31:23 GMT Subject: Re: problem with BOINC repository and CR/LF Message-ID: <50D5A81B.1000306@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <20121218164132.GC20122@sigill.intra.peff.net> On 12/18/2012 05:41 PM, Jeff King wrote: > I could reproduce it, too, on Linux. > > The reason it does not always happen is that git will not re-examine the > file content unless the timestamp on the file is older than what's in > the index. So it is a race condition for git to see whether the file is > stat-dirty. /me still wonders whether this race condition is a feature or an issue in GIT - b/c it means that 2 different people cloning the same repository get different results. > > -Peff > -- MfG/Sincerely Toralf Förster pgp finger print: 7B1A 07F4 EC82 0F90 D4C2 8936 872A E508 7DB6 9DA3