Re: [PATCH] patch-ids.c: cache patch IDs in a notes tree
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John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
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- May 13, 2013, 14:02 UTC
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On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 06:53:29AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk> writes: > > > The caching layer could also introduce false positives though, which is > > more serious. If you cache patch IDs with a pathspec restriction ... > > What? What business does patch-id have with pathspec-limited diff > generation? You do not rebase or cherry-pick with pathspec, so > unless you are populating the patch-id cache at a wrong point (like, > say whenevern "git show $commit" is run), I am not sure why pathspec > limit becomes even an issue.
revision.c::cherry_pick_list() sets the pathspec to what was specified in the revision options. It's done that since commit 36d56de (Fix --cherry-pick with given paths, 2007-07-10) and t6007 tests that it works.