From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 01:17:11 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add an option not to use link(src, dest) && unlink(src) when that is unreliable
Message-ID: <7vhc0cw6w8.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <200904252052.10327.j6t@kdbg.org>

Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> writes:

> On Samstag, 25. April 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> If you _don't_ do this patch, does
>>
>> 	[core]
>> 		fsyncobjectfiles = true
>>
>> hide the bug?
>
> Most likely not because our fsync() on Windows is a noop :(

Actually, the reason I CC'ed Linus (and I also was interested in the
platform bug itself) was because I think Dscho is accessing the NTFS
partition from the Linux side.