From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 01:26:30 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cache-tree: invalidate i-t-a paths after writing trees
Message-ID: <CACsJy8BQO4G0YXf87jS+sEpd6+RW+UVULDEt80yzTiiisWS2-A@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vhao8neck.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 7:06 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>> An alternative might be to add a "phoney" bit next to "used" in the
>>> cache_tree structure, mark the cache tree as phoney when we skip an
>>> entry marked as CE_REMOVE or CE_ITA, and make the postprocessing
>>> loop this patch adds aware of that bit, instead of iterating over
>>> the index entries; instead, it would recurse the resulting cache
>>> tree and invalidate parts of the tree that have subtrees with the
>>> "phoney" bit set, or something.
>>
>> Yeah, that sounds better.
>
> Did anything happen to this topic after this?

Not from my side because I forgot to mark this thread as a todo item
and unsurprisingly forgot about it.
-- 
Duy