Re: [PATCH] cherry-pick/revert: transparently refresh index

+static void read_and_refresh_cache(const char *me)
+{
+       static struct lock_file index_lock;
+       int index_fd = hold_locked_index(&index_lock, 0);
+       if (read_index_preload(&the_index, NULL) < 0)
+               die("git %s: failed to read the index", me);
+       refresh_index(&the_index, REFRESH_QUIET|REFRESH_UNMERGED, NULL, NULL, NULL);

Can we refresh only index entries that are cherry-picked/reverted?
Full refresh can be expensive on large repos while these operations
don't usually touch the whole repo.

I'm thinking of adding ce_really_uptodate() and converting most of
ce_uptodate() call sites  to the new one.

diff --git a/cache.h b/cache.h
index 123dd4b..81dc5cf 100644
--- a/cache.h
+++ b/cache.h

@@ -240,6 +240,7 @@ static inline size_t ce_namelen(const struct

cache_entry *ce)
 			    ondisk_cache_entry_size(ce_namelen(ce)))
 #define ce_stage(ce) ((CE_STAGEMASK & (ce)->ce_flags) >> CE_STAGESHIFT)
 #define ce_uptodate(ce) ((ce)->ce_flags & CE_UPTODATE)
+#define ce_really_uptodate(ce) (ce_uptodate(ce) ||
(refresh_cache_entry(ce), ce_uptodate(ce)))
 #define ce_skip_worktree(ce) ((ce)->ce_flags & CE_SKIP_WORKTREE)
 #define ce_mark_uptodate(ce) ((ce)->ce_flags |= CE_UPTODATE)

@@ -512,6 +513,7 @@ extern void fill_stat_cache_info(struct

cache_entry *ce, struct stat *st);
 #define REFRESH_IGNORE_SUBMODULES	0x0010	/* ignore submodules */
 #define REFRESH_IN_PORCELAIN	0x0020	/* user friendly output, not
"needs update" */
 extern int refresh_index(struct index_state *, unsigned int flags,
const char **pathspec, char *seen, char *header_msg);
+extern struct cache_entry *refresh_cache_entry(struct cache_entry
*ce, int really);

 struct lock_file {
 	struct lock_file *next;

diff --git a/read-cache.c b/read-cache.c
index 1f42473..76525a9 100644
--- a/read-cache.c
+++ b/read-cache.c

@@ -1156,7 +1156,7 @@ int refresh_index(struct index_state *istate,

unsigned int flags, const char **p
 	return has_errors;
 }

-static struct cache_entry *refresh_cache_entry(struct cache_entry
*ce, int really)
+struct cache_entry *refresh_cache_entry(struct cache_entry *ce, int really)
 {
 	return refresh_cache_ent(&the_index, ce, really, NULL);
 }
-- 
Duy