From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 18:00:44 GMT
Subject: Re: git status: small difference between stating whole repository and small subdirectory
Message-ID: <20120410180044.GA23758@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vbomzqzuc.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 09:23:59AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> > could I ask what is the status of this? There were some patches
> > posted, but I think nothing final?
> 
> I do not think you meant to address your inquiry to me, but I think these
> patches tried out some ideas, got issues discovered in them and then got
> abandoned before resulting in a working code that is ready for testing.

Yes. I think we decided that we needed some pretty good testing to add
the cache_tree handling back into unpack_trees. I'd still like to do
that testing, but haven't done it yet.

-Peff