Elijah Newren <newren@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Modify index_has_changes() to take a struct istate* instead of just
> operating on the_index. This is only a partial conversion, though,
> because we call do_diff_cache() which implicitly assumes work is to be
> done on the_index. Ongoing work is being done elsewhere to do the
> remainder of the conversion, and thus is not duplicated here. Instead,
> a simple check is put in place until that work is complete.
Yeah, that is an unfortunate but necessary compromise until we
create do_diff_index() that can take an istate, and optionally turn
do_diff_cache() into
#define do_diff_cache(...) do_diff_index(&the_index, ...)
if there are many callers that want to work on the default in-core
istate.
