Am 1/15/2013 1:11, schrieb Junio C Hamano: > I'd say a simplistic "ignore if zero is stored" or even "ignore this > as one of the systems that shares this file writes crap in it" may > be sufficient, and if this is a jGit specific issue, it might even > make sense to introduce a single configuration variable with string > "jgit" somewhere in its name and bypass the stat field comparison > for known-problematic fields, instead of having the user know and > list what stat fields need special attention. It was my suggestion to have a list of names to ignore because the answer to this question > Is this "the user edits in eclipse and then runs 'git status' from the > terminal" problem? was "It is purely for performance in some situations" back then. But today, the answer is "Yes". With this new background, your suggestion to have just a single option that contains the token "jgit" may make more sense. (core.ignoreCygwinFSTricks may serve as a precedent.) The original patch was along this way, and the name contained "minimal", which I objected to. -- Hannes -- 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