Merge branch 'jk/maint-break-rename-reduce-memory' into maint

[git.git] / Documentation / technical / racy-git.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt b/Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt
index 48bb97f0b11048f3773fe9fba234fe1160ca3906..53aa0c82c22c687db1e16041fe9f4a97b1fe064e 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt
@@ -42,10 +42,12 @@ compared, but this is not enabled by default because this member
 is not stable on network filesystems.  With `USE_NSEC`
 compile-time option, `st_mtim.tv_nsec` and `st_ctim.tv_nsec`
 members are also compared, but this is not enabled by default
-because the value of this member becomes meaningless once the
-inode is evicted from the inode cache on filesystems that do not
-store it on disk.
-
+because in-core timestamps can have finer granularity than
+on-disk timestamps, resulting in meaningless changes when an
+inode is evicted from the inode cache.  See commit 8ce13b0
+of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git
+([PATCH] Sync in core time granuality with filesystems,
+2005-01-04).
 
 Racy git
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