From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2010 16:27:18 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] rerere: fix overeager gc
Message-ID: <7v1vbn417d.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4C2AE04E.9090901@viscovery.net>

Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> writes:

> Would it be possible to update the timestamp of preimage every time it is
> used (e.g., in rerere.c:merge()), and check for that?

It would be _possible_, but we are _not_ modifying the file at that point,
so somehow that solution feels very wrong, no?