Re: CFT: merge-recursive in C (updated)

Johannes Schindelin, Thu, Jun 29, 2006 20:40:46 +0200:

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When diff-index and diff-files compare a tree entry or an index
entry with a file in the working tree, they do not compute the
blob hash value for the file in the working tree.  0{40} is used
on the RHS in such a case.  When the working tree file matches
the corresponding index entry, then we know RHS matches what is
in the index, so both sides have the blob hash value.

Ok. Am I correct in the assumption, that if the file in working tree has
the same SHA1 as LHS, than the next "git-update-index --refresh" will
remove the entry from git-diff-index output?
This is what actually happens, if I do "git-update-index --refresh", so I
suspect that I have an SHA1 update gone missing somewhere.

I think the problem is more like this (in ce_match_stat_basic()):

        if (ce->ce_mtime.sec != htonl(st->st_mtime))
                changed |= MTIME_CHANGED;
        if (ce->ce_ctime.sec != htonl(st->st_ctime))
                changed |= CTIME_CHANGED;

If you update with --index-info, the mtime and ctime is not updated 
from the file in the working directory.

Oh, I see. I was under impression git-diff-index does not use mtime/ctime.
Thought it was just mode+sha between treeish and index.
    $ man git-diff-index
       git-diff-index <tree-ish>
              compares the <tree-ish> and the files on the filesystem.
       git-diff-index --cached <tree-ish>
              compares the <tree-ish> and the index.
So it does compare treeish ad index, but only if explicitly told so.
Pity, there seem to be no way to update the times in --index-info
protocol yet. Maybe it'll be even never needed, after cache functions
gone libraries.

All the more a reason to go forward with direct calls to read_cache() and 
write_cache(). At the moment, my plan is

- trivially split the read_cache() code into read_cache()/read_cache_from(),
- introduce flush_cache(),
- trivially rewrite add_file_to_cache(), and add_cache_info() from
  builtin-update-index.c, move that to read-tree.c, too, and
- throw out the pipe to git-update-index from merge-recursive.c 
  altogether.

This should be less intrusive than it sounds: with the introduction of 
read_cache_from() it should be trivial to handle the problem of different 
index files.

We have to put a lock_file on the index file at the start, and write the 
index file at the end.

Yes, very nice plan, all by itself :)