From: david@lang.hm
Date: Thu, 07 May 2009 22:43:40 GMT
Subject: RE:
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0905071543120.15782@asgard>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0905071531030.4983@localhost.localdomain>

On Thu, 7 May 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Thu, 7 May 2009, david@lang.hm wrote:
>>
>> his use case (as I understand it) is that the working tree is never updated by
>> anything other than git. it never recieves patches or manual edits.
>
> Well, you can certainly just use the CE_VALID bit in the index too (and
> this time I really mean CE_VALID). But it won't help anybody else, so it
> wouldn't be nearly as interesting. And I wonder how badly that code has
> rotted, thanks to not getting used.
>
> But yes, one thing to do would be
>
> 	git update-index --assume-unchanged --refresh
>
> which should hopefully set the bit, and then after that setting
> 'core.ignoreStat' should hopefully keep it set.
>
> Of course, you had then better _never_ make any mistakes and touch the
> files with non-git commands.

even with this a git checkout -f should replace all files, correct?

David Lang

> And hope that the code still works ;)
>
> 		Linus
>