Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Junio C Hamano schrieb: >> I didn't fully read what you wrote but after you copy a repository from >> one to another outside git (be it done with unison or rsync), you should >> run "update-index --refresh". > > And the reason for this is that git also looks at the inode numbers, and I > guess that unison does not go as far as to preserve them between machines... True; we used to (and you can still configure git to) check st_dev too but we stopped to doing that by default as it is unstable even in a normal use case (read: no "cp" involved) on some networked file systems. I wonder how stable inum is on inode-less filesystems (say FAT). I guess it is not usually a problem because carrying repositories on USB keychains is typically done as a sneakernet and with bare repositories. -- 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