On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 12:56:19PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Ok, I've made a bugzilla entry for this for the Fedora people, but I > thought I'd mention something I noticed yesterday but only tracked down > today: it seems like the beagle file indexing code is able to screw up git > in subtle ways. > > I do not know exactly what happens, but the symptoms are random (and > quite hard-to-trigger) dirty index contents where git believes that some > set of files are not clean in the index. > > I *suspect* that beagle is playing games with the file access times, > causing the ctime on disk to not match the ce_ctime in the index file. But > that's just a guess. (...) IIRC, beagle stores a bunch of useful information for itself in extended attributes on indexed files. It is likely that it's that that is tampering with the file stats. Mike - 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
