Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Thu, Feb 01 2018, Junio C. Hamano jotted: > >> * nd/fix-untracked-cache-invalidation (2018-01-24) 5 commits >> - dir.c: stop ignoring opendir() error in open_cached_dir() >> - update-index doc: note a fixed bug in the untracked cache >> - dir.c: fix missing dir invalidation in untracked code >> - dir.c: avoid stat() in valid_cached_dir() >> - status: add a failing test showing a core.untrackedCache bug >> >> Some bugs around "untracked cache" feature have been fixed. >> >> Will merge to 'next'. > > The "update-index doc: note a fixed bug in the untracked cache" needs to > be amended so it doesn't say "Before 2.16, ": True; we could just say "earlier", but I am inclined to suggest that we get drop it altogether. Description of historical bugs is of no interest with the version that already fixes them, so the _only_ value the doc update adds is to tell readers that the untracked cache feature is still not well proven, and core.untrackedCache may serve as an escape hatch from its bugs by disabling the mechanism added for the feature. I am *not* opposed to a replacement of the patch that just says something like "This feature has been cause of bugs even in recent versions of Git, and you may want to disable it as a workaround when you are hit by an otherwise undiscovered bug in this area", though.
