Re: [PATCH v12 11/20] index-helper: use watchman to avoid refreshing, index with lstat()

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Duy Nguyen <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 4:45 AM, David Turner <dturner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > diff --git a/read-cache.c b/read-cache.c
> > index 1719f5a..8ec4be3 100644
> > --- a/read-cache.c
> >  +++ b/read-cache.c
> > @@ -1235,7 +1235,7 @@ int refresh_index(struct index_state *istate, unsigned int flags,
> >                 if (!new) {
> >                         const char *fmt;
> >
> > -                       if (really && cache_errno == EINVAL) {
> > +                       if (really || cache_errno == EINVAL) {
> > /* If we are doing --really-refresh that > > * means the index is not valid anymore.
> >                                  */
>
> This looks really odd. I don't see why we would need this. It seems
> first appeared in your "do not apply" patch [1]. Maybe leftover?
>
> I found this while re-reading the series and I have not put much time
> in studying this code yet. So I may be wrong. I'll post again if I
> find that it's true after some more staring.

I don't remember the exact details here, but I think we needed this so
that we would ever refresh a file that watchman told us had been
modified.  We definitely were missing some invalidation if we didn't
have it.

P.S. Please CC novalis@xxxxxxxxxxx on these emails as I don't always
check the git mailing list.

P.P.S. Since I don't have the original message in my mailbox, I am trying something weird to send this message with a correct in-reply-to header. I something ends up screwed up, I apologize.

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