From 02b6efbd778513fffa95ea8df89bd7d835b12228 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2017 11:59:45 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] mingw: change core.fsyncObjectFiles = 1 by default MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From the documentation of said setting: This boolean will enable fsync() when writing object files. This is a total waste of time and effort on a filesystem that orders data writes properly, but can be useful for filesystems that do not use journalling (traditional UNIX filesystems) or that only journal metadata and not file contents (OS X’s HFS+, or Linux ext3 with "data=writeback"). The most common file system on Windows (NTFS) does not guarantee that order, therefore a sudden loss of power (or any other event causing an unclean shutdown) would cause corrupt files (i.e. files filled with NULs). Therefore we need to change the default. Note that the documentation makes it sound as if this causes really bad performance. In reality, writing loose objects is something that is done only rarely, and only a handful of files at a time. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin --- compat/mingw.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/compat/mingw.c b/compat/mingw.c index cf7da71a51..849a72998c 100644 --- a/compat/mingw.c +++ b/compat/mingw.c @@ -3295,6 +3295,7 @@ void mingw_startup(void) maybe_redirect_std_handles(); adjust_symlink_flags(); + fsync_object_files = 1; /* get wide char arguments and environment */ si.newmode = 0;