Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I treated that as low-prio as I got the impression that you are generally OK with > the current implementation. I promise to send a patch with this change. > Either as part of this series or as a follow up patch. Sure. I was just being curious what happened; I agree that it is a good idea to treat this as a lower priority clean-up item and leave it to later. > Yes. I guess that was a premature optimization on my end. > This is how "write_entry()" in entry.c would change: > > - dco->is_delayed = 0; > ret = async_convert_to_working_tree( > ce->name, new, size, &buf, dco); > - if (ret && dco->is_delayed) { > + if (ret && string_list_has_string(&dco->paths, ce->name)) { > free(new); > goto finish; > } > > OK? Actually I should be asking the "OK?" question---the above was what I had in mind when I commented, but you are a lot more familiar with the way how this code is supposed to work, and I didn't know if the emptyness of the list can be a 100% substitute for that bit. If you think they are equivalent, that is a great news. > At this point I want to ensure that checkout_entry() is called > with the CE_RETRY state. Because checkout_entry() needs to pass > that flag to the convert machinery. > > This assert was useful when checkout_entry() changed dco->state > between CAN_DELAY and DELAYED. In the current implementation the > state should not be changed anymore. > > Would you prefer if I remove it? (with or without is both fine with me) If that is the reason behind the assert, I am OK with either (1) moving it _after_ checkout_entry() returns (to ensure that the function no longer mucks with the state, or (2) removing it. Leaving it at the current position does not make much sense to me.