Re: [GSoC][PATCH 4/8] submodule: port submodule subcommand 'status' from shell to C

> On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 3:32 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> writes:
>>
>>>> +       if (!lstat(list_item->name, &st) && !ce_match_stat(list_item, &st, 0)) {
>>>> +               print_status(info, ' ', list_item->name, sub_sha1, displaypath);
>>>
>>> The question from the last round still stands
>>> https://public-inbox.org/git/CAGZ79kb18z5zc9iu3Vv5aVZWJmoZzmwbMVpy89VC-t-ei2M+bw@mail.gmail.com/
>>>
>>>   I am not an expert in the diff area  and wonder how
>>>   the cmd_diff_files functionality is achieved with just a stat call
>>>   and then comparing it to  ce_match_stat. 'Using "dirty" ignores
>>>   all changes to the work tree of submodules, only changes to the
>>>   commits stored in the superproject are shown.' So I'd have
>>>   expected ce->oid to be compared (is there an index entry differing,
>>>   i.e. more than one stage?)
>>
>> ce_match_stat() calls into ce_compare_gitlink() for a 160000 entry,
>> which would resolve HEAD ref there and compares ce->oid with it.
>
> Oh in that case this should be fine, as in the original we did
> "git diff-files --ignore-submodules=dirty <path>",
> which did precisely that.