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Re: checkout-cache -f: a better way?

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JGJeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Date
May 20, 2005, 23:33 UTC
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Junio C Hamano wrote:
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>>>>>>"JG" == Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> writes:
> 
> 
> JG> Being a weirdo, I don't use cogito for kernel development, just git
> JG> itself.
> 
> My customer, in other words ;-).
> 
> JG> git-read-tree $(cat .git/HEAD) && \
> JG> 	git-checkout-cache -q -f -a && \
> JG> 	git-update-cache --refresh
> 
> I have to check checkout-cache.c, but assuming that you start
> from an already populated work tree with a valid cache when you
> do the git-read-tree at the third line from the last, using
> "git-read-tree -m HEAD" (you do not need to say $(cat .git/HEAD)
> in the modern git anymore) would be a good place to start.
> 
> Also the modern git-checkout-cache has a '-u' option and with it
> you should not need 'git-update-cache --refresh' after that.
> 
> Let me know if you have any problems.  Single tree '-m' is what
> Linus did and '-u' option to git-checkout-cache is mine.

Pardon my ignorance (I'm slow :)), but how do those changes address the fact that git-checkout-cache appears to checkout the entire kernel tree (over 100MB of writes) when using '-f' ?

git-checkout-cache -f writes out every file, even if it exists, correct?
	Jeff
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  3. Jeff GarzikMay 20, 2005
  4. Junio C HamanoMay 20, 2005
  5. Jeff GarzikMay 20, 2005
  6. Linus TorvaldsMay 21, 2005
  7. Jeff GarzikMay 21, 2005
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  10. Jeff GarzikMay 20, 2005
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