From: Junio C Hamano Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2021 00:07:53 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] packfile: freshen the mtime of packfile by configuration Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Taylor Blau 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.