Hi Duy, I haven't looked at your split-index series at all. However, sparse has nagged me to take a quick squint at the result of the series as it appears in the 'pu' branch. In particular, sparse complains thus: SP sequencer.c sequencer.c:690:49: error: incompatible types for operation (>=) sequencer.c:690:49: left side has type int ( extern [toplevel] *<noident> )( ... ) sequencer.c:690:49: right side has type int ... which is fair enough; index_fd is, indeed, a function (pointer) and not an int file descriptor! The offending code looks like: 683 static void read_and_refresh_cache(struct replay_opts *opts) 684 { 685 static struct lock_file index_lock; 686 hold_locked_index(&index_lock, 0); 687 if (read_index_preload(&the_index, NULL) < 0) 688 die(_("git %s: failed to read the index"), action_name(opts)); 689 refresh_index(&the_index, REFRESH_QUIET|REFRESH_UNMERGED, NULL, NULL, NULL); 690 if (the_index.cache_changed && index_fd >= 0) { 691 if (write_locked_index(&the_index, &index_lock, COMMIT_LOCK)) 692 die(_("git %s: failed to refresh the index"), action_name(opts)); 693 } 694 rollback_lock_file(&index_lock); 695 } It seems that, in an earlier commit (33c297aa), index_fd was declared as a local int variable (hiding the global function) which was then initialised by a call to hold_locked_index(). I assume that the conditional should be changed to something like: 690 if (the_index.cache_changed && index_lock.fd >= 0) { ... but I haven't spent any time investigating this, so take this suggestion which a large pinch of salt! :-P ATB, Ramsay Jones -- 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