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Re: git status: small difference between stating whole repository and small subdirectory

From
Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 20, 2012, 14:16 UTC
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On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 9:06 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> Interestingly, on my git.git repo, I had an empty cache. Running "git
> read-tree HEAD" filled it (according to test-dump-cache-tree). It seems
> that running "git checkout" empties the cache.  So perhaps git could do
> better about keeping the cache valid over time.

For fast forward case when result index matches 100% destination tree, yeah we should repopulate cache-tree. "git reset" does that. Not sure about other cases though. I don't think we can keep track what subtrees are unchanged after unpack_trees() in order to keep them.

-- 
Duy
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  1. Piotr KrukowieckiFeb 10, 2012
  2. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyFeb 10, 2012
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  4. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyFeb 10, 2012
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  6. Piotr KrukowieckiFeb 10, 2012
  7. Thomas RastFeb 14, 2012
  8. Piotr KrukowieckiFeb 15, 2012
  9. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyFeb 15, 2012
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  11. Piotr KrukowieckiFeb 16, 2012
  12. Jeff KingFeb 15, 2012
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  14. Thomas RastFeb 16, 2012
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  17. Jeff KingFeb 16, 2012
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  19. Jeff KingFeb 17, 2012
  20. Junio C HamanoFeb 17, 2012
  21. Jeff KingFeb 17, 2012
  22. Piotr KrukowieckiFeb 20, 2012
  23. Jeff KingFeb 20, 2012
  24. Thomas RastFeb 20, 2012
  25. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyFeb 20, 2012
  26. Jeff KingFeb 20, 2012
  27. Jeff KingFeb 20, 2012
  28. Thomas RastFeb 20, 2012
  29. Jeff KingFeb 20, 2012
  30. Junio C HamanoFeb 20, 2012
  31. Jeff KingFeb 20, 2012
  32. Junio C HamanoFeb 20, 2012
  33. Piotr KrukowieckiFeb 21, 2012
  34. Junio C HamanoFeb 20, 2012
  35. Jeff KingFeb 20, 2012
  36. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyFeb 21, 2012
  37. Junio C HamanoFeb 21, 2012
  38. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyFeb 22, 2012
  39. Junio C HamanoFeb 22, 2012
  40. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyFeb 22, 2012
  41. Thomas RastFeb 22, 2012
  42. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyFeb 22, 2012
  43. Junio C HamanoFeb 22, 2012
  44. Piotr KrukowieckiApr 10, 2012
  45. Junio C HamanoApr 10, 2012
  46. Jeff KingApr 10, 2012
  47. Junio C HamanoFeb 20, 2012
  48. Thomas RastFeb 20, 2012
  49. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyFeb 20, 2012
  50. Jeff KingFeb 20, 2012
  51. Junio C HamanoFeb 20, 2012
  52. Jeff KingFeb 20, 2012

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