Re: [PATCH v3] Enable minimal stat checking

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 08:49:22AM +0100, Robin Rosenberg wrote:

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Specifically the fields uid, gid, ctime, ino and dev are set to zero
by JGit. Other implementations, eg. Git in cygwin are allegedly also
somewhat incompatible with Git For Windows and on *nix platforms
the resolution of the timestamps may differ.

This is an old commit, but I noticed a bug today...

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This change introduces a core.checkstat config option where the
[...]
+core.checkstat::
[...]
+	if (!strcmp(var, "core.statinfo")) {

One of these is not like the others. I didn't prepare a patch, though,
because I wasn't sure which it was supposed to be. A documentation bug
or a code bug? :)

I'd say checkstat reads much better than statinfo.