Christoph Groth <christoph@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > However, there is one problem with syncing git repositories, that has > been noticed by multiple people [1]: The file .git/index contains not > only the “git index”, but also a cache of stat-data of the files in the > working directory. Some file synchronizers are able to sync mtimes, but > syncing ctimes would be bizarre (if it is even possible). The stat-data in the index file is meant to be a mere optimization, and after copying .git/index and the working tree files to a new box, running "git update-index --refresh" would make them in sync, no?
