Re: [Census] So who uses git?

linux@horizon.com writes:

At the risk of complicating something already very complicated, and
possibly breaking on Microsoft file systems, that case can be detected
by reading the directory and noticing that the inode number changed.

Would it be worth validating the inode numbers (which can be retrieved
in a batch) even if you don't do a full lstat()?

I suspect that what you said about Microsoft filesystems is even
stronger. IIRC the latest Cygwin stopped giving d_ino regardless
of the filesystem type; you need to do a stat() anyway.