From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2015 19:05:42 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] config: add core.trustmtime
Message-ID: <xmqq610j8fzt.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <CACBZZX4jJ_b-5sbor6YibXGASeOa0gx8nEBiv8=54yoHfWL8Fw@mail.gmail.com>

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:

> 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.