Re: [Census] So who uses git?

> > Yes, I think the "assume unchanged" flag goes well together with making
> > sure that the checked-out file is non-writable at the time.
> >
> > Of course, any number of editors and other actions won't care: if you do
> > anything like
> >
> >       for i in *.c
> >       do
> >               sed 's/xyzzy/bas/g' < $i > $i.new
> >               mv $i.new $i
> >       done
> >
> > you'll never have even noticed that the old file was marked read-only. So
> > it's obviously not in any way any guarantee, but it probably makes sense
> > as a crutch.
>
> 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.