From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 17:40:15 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Add an option not to use link(src, dest) && unlink(src) when that is unreliable
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0904251039460.3101@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <7vbpqkznjs.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>



On Sat, 25 Apr 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> @@ -2225,7 +2225,9 @@ int move_temp_to_file(const char *tmpfile, const char *filename)
>  {
>  	int ret = 0;
>  
> -	if (link(tmpfile, filename))
> +	if (unreliable_hardlinks)
> +		goto try_rename;

Much better.

		Linus