Any changes to the output index should be (confusingly) marked in the source index with invalidate_ce_path(). This is used to make sure we still have valid untracked cache and cache-tree extensions in the end. We do a pretty good job of invalidating except in two places. verify_clean_subdirectory() is part of verify_absent() and verify_absent_sparse(). The former is usually called by merged_entry() or directly in threeway_merge(). The latter is obviously used by sparse checkout. In these three call sites, only merged_entry() follows up with invalidate_ce_path(). The other two don't, but they should not trigger this ce removal because this is about D/F conflicts [1]. But let's be safe and invalidate_ce_path() here as well. The second place is keep_entry() which is also used by threeway_merge() to keep higher stage entries. In order to reuse cache-tree we need to invalidate these paths as well. It's not a problem in the past because whenever a higher stage entry is present, cache-tree will not be created [2]. Now we salvage cache-tree even when higher stage entries are present, we need more invalidation. [1] c81935348b (Fix switching to a branch with D/F when current branch has file D. - 2007-03-15) [2] This is probably too strict. We should be able to create and save cache-tree for the directories that do not have conflict entries in cache_tree_update(). And this becomes more important when cache-tree plays bigger role in terms of performance. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> --- unpack-trees.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/unpack-trees.c b/unpack-trees.c index aa80b65ee1..bc43922922 100644 --- a/unpack-trees.c +++ b/unpack-trees.c @@ -1774,6 +1774,7 @@ static int verify_clean_subdirectory(const struct cache_entry *ce, if (verify_uptodate(ce2, o)) return -1; add_entry(o, ce2, CE_REMOVE, 0); + invalidate_ce_path(ce, o); mark_ce_used(ce2, o); } cnt++; @@ -2033,6 +2034,8 @@ static int keep_entry(const struct cache_entry *ce, struct unpack_trees_options *o) { add_entry(o, ce, 0, 0); + if (ce_stage(ce)) + invalidate_ce_path(ce, o); return 1; } -- 2.18.0.1004.g6639190530