From 78ed69b927b1a0d4fc0e0051f327e35a71811caa 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 402c1ad91c..074f9abb85 100644 --- a/compat/mingw.c +++ b/compat/mingw.c @@ -2773,6 +2773,7 @@ int wmain(int argc, const wchar_t **wargv) #endif maybe_redirect_std_handles(); + fsync_object_files = 1; /* determine size of argv and environ conversion buffer */ maxlen = wcslen(wargv[0]);