On 2024-08-29 at 20:43:40, Roman Sandu wrote: > Good day! > > I have a decently sized (80K files) monorepo on an NTFS drive that I have > been working with for a while under Windows via git-for-windows. Recently, I > had to (temporarily) switch to Ubuntu (24.04) via dual-boot for irrelevant > reasons, and I decided that simply mounting my NTFS drive and using the > monorepo from Ubuntu is a great idea, actually, as NTFS-3G allow for > seamless interop with NTFS via UserMapping. And so that is exactly what I > did and It Just Works! In general, I would not recommend this. NTFS doesn't support Unix permissions, so I'd expect a lot of things to be broken. A lot of people like using NTFS to share data across Windows and Linux, but UDF is a much better choice and I'm not surprised that NTFS isn't working the way you'd expect. Also, when you share a repository across systems, you should expect the index to be fully refreshed each time you change the OS, reading every file in the repository[0]. > So, what do I do about this? It honestly looks like a git bug to me, maybe > it silently fails to update the index with new timestamps because it was > initially created on Windows? But I have no clue how to narrow this issue > down further, so any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated! Can you pick some file in your repository and run `stat` on it, before and after running `git status`, and include the output? For example: stat http.c | tee /tmp/before git status stat http.c | tee /tmp/after sha256sum /tmp/before /tmp/after My guess is that NTFS-3G is not emulating something properly and it's differing at some point. [0] https://git-scm.com/docs/gitfaq#sync-working-tree -- brian m. carlson (they/them or he/him) Toronto, Ontario, CA
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