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| author | Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> | 2009-04-25 11:57:14 +0200 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2009-04-25 09:49:21 -0700 |
| commit | be66a6c43dcba42c56f66a8706721a76098f8e25 (patch) | |
| tree | 99afe341425abb4ca307ced1fc5efbf05075d993 /Documentation | |
| parent | 785a9857496ae1b71b168f6d79306ca233ec0cd6 (diff) | |
| download | git-be66a6c43dcba42c56f66a8706721a76098f8e25.tar.gz git-be66a6c43dcba42c56f66a8706721a76098f8e25.tar.xz | |
Add an option not to use link(src, dest) && unlink(src) when that is unreliable
It seems that accessing NTFS partitions with ufsd (at least on my EeePC)
has an unnerving bug: if you link() a file and unlink() it right away,
the target of the link() will have the correct size, but consist of NULs.
It seems as if the calls are simply not serialized correctly, as single-stepping
through the function move_temp_to_file() works flawlessly.
As ufsd is "Commertial software" (sic!), I cannot fix it, and have to work
around it in Git.
At the same time, it seems that this fixes msysGit issues 222 and 229 to
assume that Windows cannot handle link() && unlink().
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config.txt | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 31885690f..d31adb671 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -429,6 +429,11 @@ relatively high IO latencies. With this set to 'true', git will do the index comparison to the filesystem data in parallel, allowing overlapping IO's. +core.unreliableHardlinks:: + Some filesystem drivers cannot properly handle hardlinking a file + and deleting the source right away. In such a case, you need to + set this config variable to 'true'. + alias.*:: Command aliases for the linkgit:git[1] command wrapper - e.g. after defining "alias.last = cat-file commit HEAD", the invocation |