On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote: > ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Eric W. Biederman) writes: > > > Random thought. Would it make sense to implement a git paranoid > > mode to autodetect name mangling. > > > > I.e. After opening or creating a file by name we do a readdir in the > > same directory to make certain we can find that same name/inode > > combination. Then on name-mangling systems we can autodetect they > > exist and limit ourselves to just what they don't mangle with no > > prior knowledge. By refusing to process names that actively > > get mangled. For small directories that you frequently see in > > development it shouldn't even be that slow. > > Inside init-db where we already check how the filesystem > behaves, we could have an autodetection. I wonder if that is good enough. Git repositories can be copied over to different filesystems. Nicolas - 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
