[PATCH] Don't update unchanged merge entries
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:44:23
Subsystem:
the rest · Maintainer:
Linus Torvalds
In commit 34110cd4e394e3f92c01a4709689b384c34645d8 ("Make 'unpack_trees()'
have a separate source and destination index") I introduced a really
stupid bug in that it would always add merged entries with the CE_UPDATE
flag set. That caused us to always re-write the file, even when it was
already up-to-date in the source index.
Not only is that really stupid from a performance angle, but more
importantly it's actively wrong: if we have dirty state in the tree when
we merge, overwriting it with the result of the merge will incorrectly
overwrite that dirty state.
This trivially fixes the problem - simply don't set the CE_UPDATE flag
when the merge result matches the old state.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
Ok, that was a really stupid one.
On Sun, 16 Mar 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:Nope, I bisected it down to 34110cd4e394e3f92c01a4709689b384c34645d8 is first bad commit Make 'unpack_trees()' have a separate source and destination index and I'm trying to figure out what part of that triggered this bug.
unpack-trees.c | 5 ++++- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/unpack-trees.c b/unpack-trees.c
index 0cdf198..46d4f6c 100644
--- a/unpack-trees.c
+++ b/unpack-trees.c@@ -593,6 +593,8 @@ static int verify_absent(struct cache_entry *ce, const char *action, static int merged_entry(struct cache_entry *merge, struct cache_entry *old, struct unpack_trees_options *o) { + int update = CE_UPDATE; + if (old) { /* * See if we can re-use the old CE directly?
@@ -603,6 +605,7 @@ static int merged_entry(struct cache_entry *merge, struct cache_entry *old, */ if (same(old, merge)) { copy_cache_entry(merge, old); + update = 0; } else { if (verify_uptodate(old, o)) return -1;
@@ -615,7 +618,7 @@ static int merged_entry(struct cache_entry *merge, struct cache_entry *old, invalidate_ce_path(merge, o); } - add_entry(o, merge, CE_UPDATE, CE_STAGEMASK); + add_entry(o, merge, update, CE_STAGEMASK); return 1; }