From 1ce4790bf5eeceb212f003fffcb36069c0ebb45e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alex Riesen Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 08:31:28 +0200 Subject: Make use of stat.ctime configurable A new configuration variable 'core.trustctime' is introduced to allow ignoring st_ctime information when checking if paths in the working tree has changed, because there are situations where it produces too much false positives. Like when file system crawlers keep changing it when scanning and using the ctime for marking scanned files. The default is to notice ctime changes. Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/config.txt | 7 +++++++ Documentation/git-update-index.txt | 5 +++++ 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 1a13abc922..61c376057c 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -117,6 +117,13 @@ core.fileMode:: the working copy are ignored; useful on broken filesystems like FAT. See linkgit:git-update-index[1]. True by default. +core.trustctime:: + If false, the ctime differences between the index and the + working copy are ignored; useful when the inode change time + is regularly modified by something outside Git (file system + crawlers and some backup systems). + See linkgit:git-update-index[1]. True by default. + core.quotepath:: The commands that output paths (e.g. 'ls-files', 'diff'), when not given the `-z` option, will quote diff --git a/Documentation/git-update-index.txt b/Documentation/git-update-index.txt index 6b930bc163..1d9d81a702 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-update-index.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-update-index.txt @@ -323,6 +323,11 @@ from symbolic link to regular file. The command looks at `core.ignorestat` configuration variable. See 'Using "assume unchanged" bit' section above. +The command also looks at `core.trustctime` configuration variable. +It can be useful when the inode change time is regularly modified by +something outside Git (file system crawlers and backup systems use +ctime for marking files processed) (see linkgit:git-config[1]). + SEE ALSO -------- -- cgit v1.2.3