From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2019 04:46:37 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 07/20] Use write_index_as_tree() in lieu of write_tree_from_memory()
Message-ID: <xmqqr269la6q.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <CABPp-BExLuH9mz6sgjTbKXg44zmT3PcRsy+A8s-9PAQuxDuXfw@mail.gmail.com>

Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> writes:

> I thought about that briefly yesterday, but the fact that the
> write_locked_index() call only happens if !cache_tree_fully_valid()
> meant refactoring slightly more to get the helper to also return that
> boolean value, and since I was a little unsure of myself with
> cache-tree stuff in general I wanted to propose what looked like the
> minimally invasive changes first (by which I mean smallest patch).

Or have the caller check if cache-tree is fully valid, which is the
only case that you can build a tree (and a fully merged index would
be fully valid after you do cache_tree_update()).

> I'll take a closer look at this path.
> ...
> So, yeah, I need to put something from those BUG() messages back in;
> they clearly helped with that issue, and might help again in the
> future.

Thanks.