From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:43:05 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] notes: avoid recommitting identical trees
Message-ID: <7vvd6qaaiu.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4C7D495A.1080806@drmicha.warpmail.net>

Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> writes:

> Junio C Hamano venit, vidit, dixit 31.08.2010 18:44:
>> Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> writes:
>> 
>>>>> +	if (!parent || parse_commit(parent->item) || parse_tree(parent->item->tree) ||
>>>>> +		hashcmp(parent->item->tree->object.sha1, tree_sha1)) {
>>>>
>>>> I didn't check, but I can imagine you can drop the parse_tree here. We
>>>> should know the object sha1 once the commit is parsed.
>>>
>>> parse_commit() does a lookup_tree() but I don't think that it parses the
>>> tree, i.e. I don't hink it fills in tree->object.sha1.
>> 
>> Huh?  parse_tree(tree) calls read_sha1_file(tree->object.sha1) to parse
>> the tree.  How can it do without filling tree->object.sha1?
>
> Sure parse_tree() does that. That's why I call it. I never claimed it
> doesn't.

Sorry, My second sentence was incorrect.

       How can it do so without getting a tree with tree->object.sha1
       already filled?