On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 6:39 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > We punt from repairing the cache-tree during a branch switching if > it involves having to create a new tree object that does not yet > exist in the object store. "mkdir dir && >dir/file && git add dir" > followed by "git checkout" is one example, when a tree that records > the state of such "dir/" is not in the object store. > > However, after discovering that we do not have a tree object that > records the state of "dir/", the caller failed to remember the fact > that it noticed the cache-tree entry it received for "dir/" is > invalidated, it already knows it should not be populating the level > callchain to stop the code to attempt populating the level that has > "dir/" as its immediate subdirectory, and it is not an error at all > for the sublevel cache-tree entry gave it a bogus object name it > shouldn't even look at. > > This led the caller detect and report a non-existent error. The end s/caller/caller to/ > result was the same and we avoided stuffing a non-existent tree to > the cache-tree, but we shouldn't have issued an alarming error > message to the user. > > Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> -- 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