Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] Deprecate "not allow as-is commit with i-t-a entries"

Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy [off-list ref] writes:

2012/2/7 Junio C Hamano [off-list ref]:

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But when I said "let's admit that this is just fixing an UI mistake, no
configuration, no options", I really meant it. Without the backward
compatiblity "For now please do not fix this bug for me and keep being
buggy until I get used to the non-buggy behaviour" fuss, which we never do
to any bugfix.

Ahh I missed something again. Your patch looks good too.

Ok, the strategy part is now behind us, but I have this slight suspicion
(I didn't look at the code nor tried it out myself---I don't have time to
do this myself today) that using this codepath might result in a corrupt
cache-tree, whose entries point at a section of the index it covers as a
subtree of the whole project but with incorrect counters or something like
that.  It would be good to make sure this "just ignoring i-t-a" is doing
the right thing not to the resulting commit, but in the resulting index as
well, before we go forward with this change.