From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 08:51:56 GMT
Subject: Re: [Census] So who uses git?
Message-ID: <7vslr3ea1f.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20060201070847.2021.qmail@science.horizon.com>

linux@horizon.com writes:

> 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.