Christian Couder <christian.couder@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > +/* > + * Signal that the shared index is used by updating its mtime. > + * > + * This way, shared index can be removed if they have not been used > + * for some time. It's ok to fail to update the mtime if we are on a > + * read only file system. > + */ > +void freshen_shared_index(char *base_sha1_hex) > +{ > + const char *shared_index = git_path("sharedindex.%s", base_sha1_hex); > + check_and_freshen_file(shared_index, 1); What happens when this call fails? The function returns 0 if the file did not even exist. It also returns 0 if you cannot update its timestamp. Shouldn't the series be exposing freshen_file() instead _and_ taking its error return value seriously? > +} > + > int read_index_from(struct index_state *istate, const char *path) > { > struct split_index *split_index; > @@ -2273,6 +2286,8 @@ int write_locked_index(struct index_state *istate, struct lock_file *lock, > int ret = write_shared_index(istate, lock, flags); > if (ret) > return ret; > + } else { > + freshen_shared_index(sha1_to_hex(si->base_sha1)); > } > > return write_split_index(istate, lock, flags);