Re: [PATCH 4/8] read-cache: add invalidate parameter to remove_marked_cache_entries

On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 7:25 PM Elijah Newren [off-list ref] wrote:

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I'm not the unpack-trees man (I think that would still be Junio). And
I'm not saying it's sane either. I think it's just some leftover
things since Linus split "the index" in unpack-tree operation to
'src', 'result' and 'dst' many years ago and nobody was brave enough
to clean it up (then I piled on with untracked cache and split index,
but I did not see it clearly either). That person could be you ;-)

Hmm, might make a good New Year's resolution: Enter the abyss, find
out if one can return from it...  or maybe I could just sanely run
away screaming.  We'll see.

I'm getting off topic. But my new years resolution would be optimize
for the case where src_index == dst_index, which is somewhat ironic
because we used to do everything in the same index, but it was a messy
mess and had to be split up.
-- 
Duy