From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:43:10 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Improve on the 'invalid object' error message at commit time
Message-ID: <7vab37giep.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0907141119190.13838@localhost.localdomain>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> ... one thing that I 
> started wondering about was whether the problem Florian saw was about one 
> of the files he had done "git add" on, or whether it was a tree entry that 
> was the result of "find_subtree()".

Same here.

Historically, cache-tree had issues that same corner case codepaths forgot
invalidating subtrees when they should that could have led to kinds of
bugs that are hard to diagnose.  I think the API got harder to make that
kind of mistakes while we squashed those bugs, though.