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Re: [RFC/PATCH] config: add core.trustmtime

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Nov 30, 2015, 19:05 UTC
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Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:
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> Maybe I'm missing some really common breakage with st_mtime on some
> system, but having a feature the user explicitly enables turn itself
> off and doing FS-testing that takes 10 seconds when it's enabled seems
> like the wrong default to me.
>
> We don't do it with core.fileMode, core.ignorecase or core.trustctime
> or core.symlinks. Do we really need to be treating this differently?

I share the exact thought. I was looking the other way when untracked-cache was done originally ;-), and I would also want to know the answers to the above questions.

Thanks.
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  1. config: add core.trustmtimeChristian Couder, Nov 25, 2015
  2. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonNov 25, 2015
  3. Duy NguyenNov 25, 2015
  4. Christian CouderNov 26, 2015
  5. Duy NguyenNov 26, 2015
  6. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonNov 27, 2015
  7. Junio C HamanoNov 30, 2015
  8. Duy NguyenNov 30, 2015
  9. Torsten BögershausenDec 1, 2015
  10. Duy NguyenDec 2, 2015
  11. Christian CouderDec 7, 2015
  12. Johannes SchindelinNov 25, 2015
  13. Christian CouderNov 25, 2015

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