git shows random files changed on Mac NFS filesystem

Question

We have a strange problem here at work that I\'ve been unable to figure out. We all use MacBooks with Snow Leopard on our desktops and we have a handful of Linux servers we als

Answer 1

Maybe unsynchronized time between the servers and workstations makes the modification times of the files unreliable. Does setting of core.trustctime help? (it is true by default). There is an even heavier setting: core.ignoreStat to ignore complete stat(2) information in the change detection code.