Re: why git-reset needed after "cp -a" of a git repo?

On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 03:19:23PM -0400, Erez Zadok wrote:

Thanks for the info and tips.  It's a good idea of course to detect any
possible changes, but I wonder if for those of us who know what they're
doing (i.e., living on the edge :-), there could be an option to ignore
inode numbers and just depend on good 'ol ctime/mtime (as other tools like
make do).

I don't think there's any need for that.  You can always just run
git-update-index --refresh or just git-status to refresh the stat data
that's kept in the index.  That miscellaneous stat data (ctime, mtime,
inode number) is just there as an optimization, so git-diff doesn't have
to read every file.  It can be tossed out and regenerated any time.

--b.