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

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On 06/19/2016 01:07 AM, David Turner wrote:
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.

... and now I can't repro the problem. So I'll remove it and re-roll (with some other changes)


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