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Re: Watchman support for git

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Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date
May 14, 2014, 10:52 UTC
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One more thing I think we can solve with watchman is the racy timestamp issue (see 29e4d36 and 407c8eb). Basically if a file is updated within a second (and the system only supports timestamp granuarity down to a second) then git can't know if a file is changed by comparing stat data, so it compares content anyway. With watchman, I think we know that a file is updated or not and can disable racy test. How often this happens and whether it is worth supporting is something to think about.

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