Re: [PATCH 12/12] update-index: remove ce_match_stat(), all macros

>
> From: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
>
> The final index compatibility macro to remove from the update-index
> builtin is ce_match_state(). Further, this is the last use of that macro

> anywhere, so it should be removed.
>
> There are some remaining references in the racy-git.txt technical
> document that are updated to ie_match_stat().
>
> Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt | 6 +++---
>  builtin/update-index.c               | 3 +--
>  cache.h                              | 1 -
>  3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt b/Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt
> index ceda4bbfda4..65188e04559 100644
> --- a/Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt
> @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ information obtained from the filesystem via `lstat(2)` system
>  call when they were last updated.  When checking if they differ,
>  Git first runs `lstat(2)` on the files and compares the result
>  with this information (this is what was originally done by the
> -`ce_match_stat()` function, but the current code does it in
> +`ie_match_stat()` function, but the current code does it in

>  `ce_match_stat_basic()` function).  If some of these "cached
>  stat information" fields do not match, Git can tell that the
>  files are modified without even looking at their contents.
> @@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ timestamp as the index file itself.
>
>  The callers that want to check if an index entry matches the
>  corresponding file in the working tree continue to call
> -`ce_match_stat()`, but with this change, `ce_match_stat()` uses
> +`ie_match_stat()`, but with this change, `ie_match_stat()` uses
>  `ce_modified_check_fs()` to see if racily clean ones are
>  actually clean after comparing the cached stat information using
>  `ce_match_stat_basic()`.
> @@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ Runtime penalty
>  ---------------
>
>  The runtime penalty of falling back to `ce_modified_check_fs()`
> -from `ce_match_stat()` can be very expensive when there are many
> +from `ie_match_stat()` can be very expensive when there are many
>  racily clean entries.  An obvious way to artificially create
>  this situation is to give the same timestamp to all the files in
>  the working tree in a large project, run `git update-index` on
> diff --git a/builtin/update-index.c b/builtin/update-index.c
> index 4da0c169dc7..256df43ecbd 100644
> --- a/builtin/update-index.c
> +++ b/builtin/update-index.c
> @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
>   *
>   * Copyright (C) Linus Torvalds, 2005
>   */
> -#define USE_THE_INDEX_COMPATIBILITY_MACROS
>  #include "cache.h"
>  #include "config.h"
>  #include "lockfile.h"
> @@ -277,7 +276,7 @@ static int add_one_path(const struct cache_entry *old, const char *path, int len
>         struct cache_entry *ce;
>
>         /* Was the old index entry already up-to-date? */
> -       if (old && !ce_stage(old) && !ce_match_stat(old, st, 0))
> +       if (old && !ce_stage(old) && !ie_match_stat(istate, old, st, 0))
>                 return 0;
>
>         ce = make_empty_cache_entry(istate, len);
> diff --git a/cache.h b/cache.h
> index dfcbc4923e2..2925bf050b8 100644
> --- a/cache.h
> +++ b/cache.h
> @@ -416,7 +416,6 @@ extern struct index_state the_index;
>  #define chmod_cache_entry(ce, flip) chmod_index_entry(&the_index, (ce), (flip))
>  #define refresh_cache(flags) refresh_index(&the_index, (flags), NULL, NULL, NULL)
>  #define refresh_and_write_cache(refresh_flags, write_flags, gentle) repo_refresh_and_write_index(the_repository, (refresh_flags), (write_flags), (gentle), NULL, NULL, NULL)
> -#define ce_match_stat(ce, st, options) ie_match_stat(&the_index, (ce), (st), (options))
>  #define ce_modified(ce, st, options) ie_modified(&the_index, (ce), (st), (options))
>  #define cache_dir_exists(name, namelen) index_dir_exists(&the_index, (name), (namelen))
>  #define cache_name_is_other(name, namelen) index_name_is_other(&the_index, (name), (namelen))