Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Am 6/29/2010 19:59, schrieb Junio C Hamano: >> One possibility is to look at the timestamp of the directory itself >> instead. Then we can safely gc otherwise-unused "thisimage" file when >> rerere is not in use. I wonder if directory m_time timestamps are usable >> for this purpose on non-POSIX platforms? > > I don't think that will work at all: We only use fopen() to write > thisimage, which only truncates the file, but doesn't modify mtime of the > directory. Nor do we create any other (temporary) directory entries that > would modify the mtime. Ah, I see; I don't mind a patch that fixes the creation of thisimage to follow the "create into temporary and then commit by renaming" pattern. Would that solve this issue? -- 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