Subject: Re: problem with BOINC repository and CR/LF

From: Toralf Förster <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 11:44:14 +0100

On 12/18/2012 05:41 PM, Jeff King wrote:
> I could reproduce it, too, on Linux.
> 
> The reason it does not always happen is that git will not re-examine the
> file content unless the timestamp on the file is older than what's in
> the index. So it is a race condition for git to see whether the file is
> stat-dirty.
> 

Ah - /me was wondering why sometimes (but rarely) I could not exactly
reproduce the problem and was really wondering if the underlying file
system (ext4) would give an extra layer of trouble or not.

Thx for that explanation.

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