Re: [PATCH 1/2] reset: handle submodule with trailing slash

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On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 10:08:18AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Duy Nguyen <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > reset --soft does not go through these code paths (i.e. it does not
> > need index at all). If we fail to load index index in "reset --soft" I
> > think it's ok to die(). Corrupt index is fatal anyway.
> 
> Do I smell a breakage here?  Isn't "reset --soft HEAD" (or some
> known good commit) a way to recover from a corrupt index?
> 
> If that is the case, I do not think it is OK at all.  What do we
> suggest as an alternative?  "rm .git/index && read-tree"?

Duy's suggestion below is necessary to avoid this then I think - we'll
die if the user has a corrupt index and gives a path with a trailing
slash, but without that path we won't try to load the index.

> > But "reset
> > --soft" now has to pay the cost to load index, which could be slow
> > when the index is big. Assuming nobody does "reset --soft" that often
> > I think this is OK.
> >
> > Alternatively we could load index lazily in _CHEAP code only when we
> > see trailing slashes, then replace these read_cache() with
> > read_cache_unless_its_already_loaded_earlier() or something.
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