Re: [PATCH 2/2] rerere: fix overeager gc

SZEDER Gábor [off-list ref] writes:

'rerere gc' prunes resolutions of conflicted merges that occurred long
time ago, and when doing so it takes the creation time of the
conflicted automerge results into account.  This can cause the loss of
frequently used conflict resolutions (e.g. long-living topic branches
are merged into a regularly rebuilt integration branch (think of git's
pu)) when they become old enough to exceed 'rerere gc's threshold.

To prevent the loss of valuable merge resolutions 'rerere' will (1)
update the timestamp of the recorded conflict resolution (i.e.
'postimage') each time when encountering and resolving the same merge
conflict, and (2) take this timestamp, i.e. the time of the last usage
into account when gc'ing.

Thanks.

+static time_t rerere_last_used_at(const char *name)
+{
+	struct stat st;
+	return stat(rerere_path(name, "postimage"), &st) ? (time_t) 0 : st.st_mtime;
+}

Doesn't has_rerere_resolution() already do a stat on this path?  There are
only two allers of the function so it would probably make sense to pass a
pointer to struct stat from the caller to avoid one extra call to stat.