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util: disable floating point stat times (issue4836)
Alternate fix for this issue which avoids putting extra function calls
and exception handling in the fast path.
For almost all purposes, integer timestamps are preferable to
Mercurial. It stores integer timestamps in the dirstate and would thus
like to avoid doing any float/int comparisons or conversions. We will
continue to have to deal with 1-second granularity on filesystems for
quite some time, so this won't significantly hinder our capabilities.
This has some impact on our file cache validation code in that it
lowers timestamp resolution. But as we still have to deal with
low-resolution filesystems, we're not relying on this anyway.
An alternate approach is to use stat[ST_MTIME], which is guaranteed to
be an integer. But since this support isn't already in our extension,
we can't depend on it being available without adding a hard Python->C
API dependency that's painful for people like yours truly who have
bisect regularly and people without compilers.
| author | Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> |
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| date | Thu, 19 Nov 2015 13:21:24 -0600 |
| parents | 8fe5fc8d7b8e |
| children | f6d73c8756e2 |
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====== hgrc ====== --------------------------------- configuration files for Mercurial --------------------------------- :Author: Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@serpentine.com> :Organization: Mercurial :Manual section: 5 :Manual group: Mercurial Manual .. contents:: :backlinks: top :class: htmlonly Description =========== .. include:: hgrc.5.gendoc.txt Author ====== Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@serpentine.com>. Mercurial was written by Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>. See Also ======== |hg(1)|_, |hgignore(5)|_ Copying ======= This manual page is copyright 2005 Bryan O'Sullivan. Mercurial is copyright 2005-2015 Matt Mackall. Free use of this software is granted under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version. .. include:: common.txt