From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 01:31:24 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make use of stat.ctime configurable
Message-ID: <7v3alto4r7.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0807281817230.3486@nehalem.linux-foundation.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> The kernel does caching really well, and the kernel is fast as hell, so 
> _of_course_ when you benchmark, using kernel data structures looks good, 
> especially if you benchmark against code that isn't well written for the 
> particular usage case.

Ok.  While I have your attention on st_ctime, let me ask you a stupid
question.  Why does "rename(old, new)" change st_ctime when you move a
regular file?