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Re: [Census] So who uses git?

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Feb 1, 2006, 08:51 UTC
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linux@horizon.com writes:
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> At the risk of complicating something already very complicated, and
> possibly breaking on Microsoft file systems, that case can be detected
> by reading the directory and noticing that the inode number changed.
>
> Would it be worth validating the inode numbers (which can be retrieved
> in a batch) even if you don't do a full lstat()?

I suspect that what you said about Microsoft filesystems is even stronger. IIRC the latest Cygwin stopped giving d_ino regardless of the filesystem type; you need to do a stat() anyway.

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