Re: [PATCH] Rename core.unreliableHardlinks to core.createObject

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> >> Wait a bit. Wasn't this about you accessing NTFS on your EeePC via 
> >> unfs from the Linux side?
> >
> > Both.  I realized that there was a problem with the ufsd driver of the 
> > Xandros Linux on my EeePC, accessing NTFS partitions.  (This is the 
> > issue that made me add a config variable, but which was solved by 
> > Linus' core.fsyncobjects suggestion.)
> >
> > Later I had a hunch that the issues 222 and 229 of msysGit might have 
> > exactly the same reason, let the reporters test, and indeed, the 
> > problems went away.
> >
> > But come to think of it, we can _easily_ just set 
> > core.createObject=rename in msysGit, so I agree that there is no 
> > longer a need for the Makefile variable.
> >
> > Want me to resend?
> 
> If it helps msys, I think we should allow compiling things in, but this 
> "compiled in default for the platform, and possible per-repository 
> override" made me a bit confused:
> 
>  (1) in your "This is Linux and on sane filesystems I do not weaken it 
>      to rename but on this one filesystem I do" case can be handled by 
>      adding .git/config in that repository;
> 
>  (2) problems with msysgit can be handled by compiled-in defaults as 
>      long as the user does not have .git/config entry to say "link";
> 
>  (3) if you use the same repository from both sides with (1), presumably
>      by dual-booting, so having .git/config that says "rename" happens 
>      to work;
> 
>  (4) if somebody has a dual-boot setup and shares a repository hosted
>      natively on the Linux side by mounting it on the Windows side (Ext2 
>      IFS?), I wonder what should happen.  While you are using the 
>      repository from the Linux side, you may not want to weaken it to 
>      use "rename" (so you do not add .git/config that says "rename").  
>      When you are accessing it over Ext2 IFS, perhaps you would want to 
>      use "rename" (I do not know about the details of #222 and #229, so 
>      it may not applicable, though).
> 
> So,... as long as you do not have a triple-boot setup, third system 
> among which wants to use "link" on a repository where both Linux and 
> Windows side want to use "rename", I think you are Ok.