Karsten Blees <karsten.bl...@gmail.com> writes: > This patch series was inspired by the problem that Git does not > detect changed file content if st_size, st_mtime and st_ctime > are unchanged. This was apparently caused by VSS2Git resetting > mtime to a value in the past. [1] > > I believe (or rather hope) that all involved in the discussion > agree that Git cannot reasonably be expected to detect changed > file content if file time(s) are reset on purpose. > > However, some users have expressed concerns that 'same size and > mtime' [2] may theoretically happen by chance in daily operation.
Hmph. Haven't we already accepted that it is not just "may theoretically happen" and had counter-measures in racy-git detection machinery for quite some time? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
