On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 12:34 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. I looked a little bit and I think i-t-a entries do not break cache-tree. CE_REMOVE ones might though because they are taken into account in entry_count field, but they are not written down to file. Will look into it tonight. -- Duy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html