From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: RE: Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 15:36:29 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <454B76988CBF42F5BCACA5061125D263@caottdt504> <81b0412b0905071013y241f7eas8417127e51ff52fa@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Bevan Watkiss , "'Alex Riesen'" , Git Mailing List To: david@lang.hm X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri May 08 00:40:43 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1M2CGA-0001cf-6J for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 08 May 2009 00:40:10 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753356AbZEGWj7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 May 2009 18:39:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752223AbZEGWj7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 May 2009 18:39:59 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:57346 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751119AbZEGWj6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 May 2009 18:39:58 -0400 Received: from imap1.linux-foundation.org (imap1.linux-foundation.org [140.211.169.55]) by smtp1.linux-foundation.org (8.14.2/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id n47MaTkC018514 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 7 May 2009 15:37:05 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by imap1.linux-foundation.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id n47MaTap017741; Thu, 7 May 2009 15:36:29 -0700 X-X-Sender: torvalds@localhost.localdomain In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Alpine 2.01 (LFD 1184 2008-12-16) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.462 required=5 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.4-osdl_revision__1.47__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: lf$Revision: 1.188 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 140.211.169.13 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Thu, 7 May 2009, david@lang.hm wrote: > > his use case (as I understand it) is that the working tree is never updated by > anything other than git. it never recieves patches or manual edits. Well, you can certainly just use the CE_VALID bit in the index too (and this time I really mean CE_VALID). But it won't help anybody else, so it wouldn't be nearly as interesting. And I wonder how badly that code has rotted, thanks to not getting used. But yes, one thing to do would be git update-index --assume-unchanged --refresh which should hopefully set the bit, and then after that setting 'core.ignoreStat' should hopefully keep it set. Of course, you had then better _never_ make any mistakes and touch the files with non-git commands. And hope that the code still works ;) Linus