From: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, j sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>,
Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Make git selectively and conditionally ignore certain stat fields
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2013 20:51:51 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1999787368.3950248.1358711511739.JavaMail.root@dewire.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7va9sa6f0h.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
----- Ursprungligt meddelande -----
> That configurability is a slipperly slope to drag us into giving
> users
> more complexity that does not help them very much, I suspect.
>
> Earlier somebody mentioned "size and mtime is often enough", so I
> think a single option core.looseStatInfo (substitute "loose" with
> short, minimum or whatever adjective that is more appropriate---I am
> not good at picking phrases, it sounds to me a way to more loosely
> define stat info cleanliness than we usually do) that makes us
> ignore all fields (regardless of their zero-ness) other than those
> two fields might not be a bad way to go.
Would something like this be good?
core.statinfo =
default = all fields
minimal = whole seconds of mtime and size
medium = seconds, nanos of mtime and size
nonzero = all non-zero fields
-- robin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-20 19:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-05 21:20 [PATCH] Perform minimal stat comparison when some stat fields are not set Robin Rosenberg
2012-12-05 23:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-12-06 1:09 ` Robin Rosenberg
2012-12-06 7:21 ` Johannes Sixt
2012-12-06 11:16 ` Robin Rosenberg
2013-01-14 21:11 ` [PATCH v2] Make git selectively and conditionally ignore certain stat fields Robin Rosenberg
2013-01-14 21:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-14 23:43 ` Robin Rosenberg
2013-01-15 0:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-15 0:43 ` Robin Rosenberg
2013-01-15 7:02 ` Johannes Sixt
2013-01-15 7:09 ` Robin Rosenberg
2013-01-15 8:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-16 20:14 ` Ramsay Jones
2013-01-20 19:51 ` Robin Rosenberg [this message]
2013-01-20 20:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-22 7:49 ` [PATCH v3] Enable minimal stat checking Robin Rosenberg
2013-01-22 8:25 ` Johannes Sixt
2013-01-22 17:19 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2013-01-22 17:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-22 20:38 ` Robin Rosenberg
2013-05-06 23:22 ` Jeff King
2013-05-07 4:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-05-07 5:31 ` [PATCH] deprecate core.statinfo at Git 2.0 boundary Junio C Hamano
2013-05-07 6:38 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-05-07 14:09 ` Jeff King
2013-05-07 20:29 ` Robin Rosenberg
2013-01-14 23:51 ` [PATCH v3] Make git selectively and conditionally ignore certain stat fields Robin Rosenberg
2013-01-14 22:08 ` [PATCH v2] " Junio C Hamano
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