On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 12:50:18AM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > And what real life case would trigger this? Given the size of the > window for this to happen, what are your chances? If some process changes just one byte (or one word) back and forth then the possibility of this is 25%. Whether such a process can exist, I don't know... I could not imagine that anyone would want to change the file when we add it to the repository. In any case, it is wrong to call it a _paranoic_ mode if there is even a small (but practically feasable) chance of this to happen. Dmitry -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html