From: Marc Strapetz <marc.strapetz@syntevo.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Should update-index --refresh force writing the index in case of racy timestamps?
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2021 11:44:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d3dd805c-7c1d-30a9-6574-a7bfcb7fc013@syntevo.com> (raw)
For one of my Git-LFS test repositories, switching between branches
quite often results in lots of racy index timestamps. Subsequent calls
to "git update-index --refresh" or "git status" will invoke the "lfs"
filter over and over again, just to figure out that all entries are
still up-to-date. Hence, the index will never be rewritten and racy
timestamps will remain.
To break out of this state, it seems favorable to write the index if any
racy timestamp is detected. We will be able to provide a patch if this
change sounds reasonable.
-Marc
next reply other threads:[~2021-12-17 10:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-12-17 10:44 Marc Strapetz [this message]
2021-12-17 11:04 ` Should update-index --refresh force writing the index in case of racy timestamps? Marc Strapetz
2021-12-17 21:14 ` brian m. carlson
2021-12-18 0:08 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-12-22 11:42 ` Marc Strapetz
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