From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:19:16 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] filter-branch: remove an unnecessary use of 'git read-tree'
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0912151819010.4985@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <4B274BDE.8000504@viscovery.net>

Hi,

On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Johannes Sixt wrote:

> From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
> 
> The intent of this particular call to 'git read-tree' was to fill an
> index. But in fact, it only allocated an empty index. Later in the
> program, the index is filled anyway by calling read-tree with specific
> commits, and considering that elsewhere the index is even removed (i.e.,
> it is not relied upon that the index file exists), this first call of
> read-tree is completely redundant.

Yes, indeed.

Ciao,
Dscho