Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > If I were solving the issue, I would probably proceed like this: > > * Start from a rough sketch of what extra information I would want > to store in the new index extension section. > > * Teach read-cache.c to read from the new extension and keep it in > an in-core data structure, and read from the in-core data > structure and seriealize it to write to the extension section. > > * Perhaps enhance "update-index" so that it can read textual > representation of the contents of the new extension section, turn > it into the in-core representation, so that it can write it out > to the index file, as a debugging/development aid. > > * Teach read-cache.c to read from the new extension and keep it in > an in-core data structure. Sorry, this is a dup of the second one. Please ignore. Also, all "you" in this section should read "I" (because this is a description of "If I were solving it"). > * Teach wt-status.c to read from that in-core data structure and > improve the presentation of the cases I care about using that > information. Use the "update-index" development aid to prepare > various cases you care about. > > - If the kind of information that is stored in the new extension > turns out to be insufficient, go back to the beginning and > iterate. > > - If the use the in-core data structure here turns out to be > awkward, go back one step and iterate. > > - As I cover one more case, I would add a test to the test suite > so that we would know what cases are covered and what the > expected end-user presentation should be. > > * Once the result of the above covers all the cases I care about, > then update merge-recursive.c to prepare the in-core data > structure to be written out as the extension section. > > As I iterate, the rough sketch will hopefully cover all the cases I > care about and I'll be ready to write them down as an update to the > document somewhere in Documentation/technical/api-*. > > Thanks. -- 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