Re: [PATCH v12 11/20] index-helper: use watchman to avoid refreshing index with lstat()

From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 17, 2016, 13:02 UTC
Message-ID: <CACsJy8DzyvFOHU_8xoWUcjej=Ws7_v475=Q2iZmwKhkzYaZ7sg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1463694357-6503-12-git-send-email-dturner@twopensource.com>

On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 4:45 AM, David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com> wrote:

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> diff --git a/read-cache.c b/read-cache.c
> index 1719f5a..8ec4be3 100644
> --- a/read-cache.c
> +++ b/read-cache.c
> @@ -1235,7 +1235,7 @@ int refresh_index(struct index_state *istate, unsigned int flags,
>                 if (!new) {
>                         const char *fmt;
>
> -                       if (really && cache_errno == EINVAL) {
> +                       if (really || cache_errno == EINVAL) {
>                                 /* If we are doing --really-refresh that
>                                  * means the index is not valid anymore.
>                                  */

This looks really odd. I don't see why we would need this. It seems first appeared in your "do not apply" patch [1]. Maybe leftover?

I found this while re-reading the series and I have not put much time in studying this code yet. So I may be wrong. I'll post again if I find that it's true after some more staring.

[1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/288567

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Duy