Re: [PATCH v3] packfile: freshen the mtime of packfile by configuration

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jul 20, 2021, 00:07 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqlf61j19i.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <YPXluqywHs3u4Qr+@nand.local>

Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> writes:

> Hmm. I'm still quite unconvinced that we should be taking this direction
> without better motivation. We talked about your assumption that NFS
> seems to be invalidating the block cache when updating the inodes that
> point at those blocks, but I don't recall seeing further evidence.

Me neither. Not touching the pack and not updating the "most recently used" time of individual objects smells like a recipe for repository corruption.

> My opinion is that it is not, and that the bizarre caching behavior you
> are seeing is out of Git's control.

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