Re: [PATCH 1/2] run_diff_{files,index}(): update calling convention.

From: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 10, 2007, 11:25 UTC
Message-ID: <e5bfff550702100325v5ce9ba1fx4b9b7adcc5040948@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vhctumh1m.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On 2/10/07, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:

> I suspect that you are dual booting and browsing a git
> repository that is on a read-only mounted NTFS filesystem from
> the Linux side, and the index was created on Cygwin git?
>

Yes. That's it.

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> I (perhaps luckily) am fairly ignorant on the way things done in
> Windows environment.  For one thing, I do not know if NTFS has
> notion of i-number, file owner uid, and other information that
> are used in the index (not that I want to know).
>
> If NTFS does not support the information returned by lstat(2)
> fully on disk, I would imagine Cygwin and NTFS filesystem driver
> in the Linux kernel need to fake some fields that NTFS does not
> natively store, and if the value faked by Cygwin and NTFS driver
> in the Linux kernel disagree, then it is not at all surprising
> to see if an unmodified path shows up as cache-dirty.
>

So in this case your patch that introduce '--refresh' option in 'git runstatus' is not just a shortcut for 'git update-index' + 'git runstatus' but adds some real value.

One more reason for asking you to add it before 1.5 release ;-)