From: Andrew Stewart <boss@airbladesoftware.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 14:12:15 GMT
Subject: Re: git-diff: unable to turn off diff.autorefreshindex with command line switch
Message-ID: <5BAA7C36-0059-4F0B-96B6-7B6E66D7C315@airbladesoftware.com>
In-Reply-To: <20160121213801.GB6664@sigill.intra.peff.net>

> On 21 Jan 2016, at 9:38 pm, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> But note that your whole test is going to be racy, and possibly depend
> on the resolution of your filesystem's timestamps. Did you run your test
> as a single script, where the initial index write and the `touch` may
> happen in the same second? If so, trying running it slowly by hand,
> or inserting "sleep 1" between the commands.

I ran my tests by hand, taking more than 1s between commands.

I also used `stat README` and `ls -l README` on occasion to confirm that `touch` was updating the file's timestamps.

-- Andrew Stewart