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-rw-r--r--Documentation/config.txt5
-rw-r--r--Makefile8
-rw-r--r--cache.h2
-rw-r--r--config.c5
-rw-r--r--environment.c4
-rw-r--r--sha1_file.c5
6 files changed, 28 insertions, 1 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
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 6f602c7bb..5c8e83a99 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -171,6 +171,10 @@ all::
# Define UNRELIABLE_FSTAT if your system's fstat does not return the same
# information on a not yet closed file that lstat would return for the same
# file after it was closed.
+#
+# Define UNRELIABLE_HARDLINKS if your operating systems has problems when
+# hardlinking a file to another name and unlinking the original file right
+# away (some NTFS drivers seem to zero the contents in that scenario).
GIT-VERSION-FILE: .FORCE-GIT-VERSION-FILE
@$(SHELL_PATH) ./GIT-VERSION-GEN
@@ -835,6 +839,7 @@ ifneq (,$(findstring MINGW,$(uname_S)))
NO_NSEC = YesPlease
USE_WIN32_MMAP = YesPlease
UNRELIABLE_FSTAT = UnfortunatelyYes
+ UNRELIABLE_HARDLINKS = UnfortunatelySometimes
COMPAT_CFLAGS += -D__USE_MINGW_ACCESS -DNOGDI -Icompat -Icompat/regex -Icompat/fnmatch
COMPAT_CFLAGS += -DSNPRINTF_SIZE_CORR=1
COMPAT_CFLAGS += -DSTRIP_EXTENSION=\".exe\"
@@ -1018,6 +1023,9 @@ else
COMPAT_OBJS += compat/win32mmap.o
endif
endif
+ifdef UNRELIABLE_HARDLINKS
+ COMPAT_CFLAGS += -DUNRELIABLE_HARDLINKS=1
+endif
ifdef NO_PREAD
COMPAT_CFLAGS += -DNO_PREAD
COMPAT_OBJS += compat/pread.o
diff --git a/cache.h b/cache.h
index ab1294d6f..ff9e145be 100644
--- a/cache.h
+++ b/cache.h
@@ -554,6 +554,8 @@ extern enum branch_track git_branch_track;
extern enum rebase_setup_type autorebase;
extern enum push_default_type push_default;
+extern int unreliable_hardlinks;
+
#define GIT_REPO_VERSION 0
extern int repository_format_version;
extern int check_repository_format(void);
diff --git a/config.c b/config.c
index 8c1ae598a..1750cfb85 100644
--- a/config.c
+++ b/config.c
@@ -495,6 +495,11 @@ static int git_default_core_config(const char *var, const char *value)
return 0;
}
+ if (!strcmp(var, "core.unreliablehardlinks")) {
+ unreliable_hardlinks = git_config_bool(var, value);
+ return 0;
+ }
+
/* Add other config variables here and to Documentation/config.txt. */
return 0;
}
diff --git a/environment.c b/environment.c
index 4696885b2..10578d24d 100644
--- a/environment.c
+++ b/environment.c
@@ -43,6 +43,10 @@ unsigned whitespace_rule_cfg = WS_DEFAULT_RULE;
enum branch_track git_branch_track = BRANCH_TRACK_REMOTE;
enum rebase_setup_type autorebase = AUTOREBASE_NEVER;
enum push_default_type push_default = PUSH_DEFAULT_UNSPECIFIED;
+#ifndef UNRELIABLE_HARDLINKS
+#define UNRELIABLE_HARDLINKS 0
+#endif
+int unreliable_hardlinks = UNRELIABLE_HARDLINKS;
/* Parallel index stat data preload? */
int core_preload_index = 0;
diff --git a/sha1_file.c b/sha1_file.c
index 8fe135dc6..11969fc16 100644
--- a/sha1_file.c
+++ b/sha1_file.c
@@ -2225,7 +2225,9 @@ int move_temp_to_file(const char *tmpfile, const char *filename)
{
int ret = 0;
- if (link(tmpfile, filename))
+ if (unreliable_hardlinks)
+ goto try_rename;
+ else if (link(tmpfile, filename))
ret = errno;
/*
@@ -2240,6 +2242,7 @@ int move_temp_to_file(const char *tmpfile, const char *filename)
* left to unlink.
*/
if (ret && ret != EEXIST) {
+ try_rename:
if (!rename(tmpfile, filename))
goto out;
ret = errno;