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Re: Unable to index file

From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date
Dec 12, 2008, 20:33 UTC
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On Sat, 13 Dec 2008, Ramon Tayag wrote:
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> 
> I'm on Ubuntu 8.10.  The files I'm working on live on an NTFS drive
> (my "storage" drive; yes, I still have to boot into Windows).  If it
> being on NTFS makes a difference I'll try this on ext3 and let you
> know what happens :)
Ok, it's almost certainly the NTFS part.

And at the same time, I'm almost certain that my patch should fix it and is the right thing for git to do anyway. 

		Linus
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