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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config.txt | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-update-index.txt | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | cache.h | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | config.c | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | environment.c | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | read-cache.c | 2 |
6 files changed, 19 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 1a13abc922..61c376057c 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -117,6 +117,13 @@ core.fileMode:: the working copy are ignored; useful on broken filesystems like FAT. See linkgit:git-update-index[1]. True by default. +core.trustctime:: + If false, the ctime differences between the index and the + working copy are ignored; useful when the inode change time + is regularly modified by something outside Git (file system + crawlers and some backup systems). + See linkgit:git-update-index[1]. True by default. + core.quotepath:: The commands that output paths (e.g. 'ls-files', 'diff'), when not given the `-z` option, will quote diff --git a/Documentation/git-update-index.txt b/Documentation/git-update-index.txt index 6b930bc163..1d9d81a702 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-update-index.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-update-index.txt @@ -323,6 +323,11 @@ from symbolic link to regular file. The command looks at `core.ignorestat` configuration variable. See 'Using "assume unchanged" bit' section above. +The command also looks at `core.trustctime` configuration variable. +It can be useful when the inode change time is regularly modified by +something outside Git (file system crawlers and backup systems use +ctime for marking files processed) (see linkgit:git-config[1]). + SEE ALSO -------- @@ -423,6 +423,7 @@ extern int delete_ref(const char *, const unsigned char *sha1); /* Environment bits from configuration mechanism */ extern int trust_executable_bit; +extern int trust_ctime; extern int quote_path_fully; extern int has_symlinks; extern int ignore_case; @@ -341,6 +341,10 @@ static int git_default_core_config(const char *var, const char *value) trust_executable_bit = git_config_bool(var, value); return 0; } + if (!strcmp(var, "core.trustctime")) { + trust_ctime = git_config_bool(var, value); + return 0; + } if (!strcmp(var, "core.quotepath")) { quote_path_fully = git_config_bool(var, value); diff --git a/environment.c b/environment.c index 4a88a17d54..0c6d11f6a0 100644 --- a/environment.c +++ b/environment.c @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ char git_default_email[MAX_GITNAME]; char git_default_name[MAX_GITNAME]; int user_ident_explicitly_given; int trust_executable_bit = 1; +int trust_ctime = 1; int has_symlinks = 1; int ignore_case; int assume_unchanged; diff --git a/read-cache.c b/read-cache.c index 6c0880337b..1cae361c6c 100644 --- a/read-cache.c +++ b/read-cache.c @@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ static int ce_match_stat_basic(struct cache_entry *ce, struct stat *st) } if (ce->ce_mtime != (unsigned int) st->st_mtime) changed |= MTIME_CHANGED; - if (ce->ce_ctime != (unsigned int) st->st_ctime) + if (trust_ctime && ce->ce_ctime != (unsigned int) st->st_ctime) changed |= CTIME_CHANGED; if (ce->ce_uid != (unsigned int) st->st_uid || |