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| author | Karsten Blees <karsten.blees@gmail.com> | 2015-07-01 19:10:52 (GMT) |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2015-07-01 21:54:42 (GMT) |
| commit | b1ffafa978b99ed65b3c040ae762bfdec2379cfc (patch) | |
| tree | 7220b2e9f19aa6923691f49e56755be444ebd005 /Makefile | |
| parent | a5fe66802f8c4036badd54ff36ff327d43236e7e (diff) | |
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Makefile / racy-git.txt: clarify USE_NSEC prerequisites
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
@@ -217,10 +217,11 @@ all:: # as the compiler can crash (http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=49299) # # Define USE_NSEC below if you want git to care about sub-second file mtimes -# and ctimes. Note that you need recent glibc (at least 2.2.4) for this, and -# it will BREAK YOUR LOCAL DIFFS! show-diff and anything using it will likely -# randomly break unless your underlying filesystem supports those sub-second -# times (my ext3 doesn't). +# and ctimes. Note that you need recent glibc (at least 2.2.4) for this. On +# Linux, kernel 2.6.11 or newer is required for reliable sub-second file times +# on file systems with exactly 1 ns or 1 s resolution. If you intend to use Git +# on other file systems (e.g. CEPH, CIFS, NTFS, UDF), don't enable USE_NSEC. See +# Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt for details. # # Define USE_ST_TIMESPEC if your "struct stat" uses "st_ctimespec" instead of # "st_ctim" |