"Phillip Wood via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > .... Instead of relying on stat > data this patch simply reads the possibly edited todo list and > compares it to the original with memcmp(). This is much faster than > reparsing the todo list each time. Nice. Is that an egg of Columbus or what ;-) > + if (strbuf_read_file_or_whine(&buf, get_todo_path(opts)) < 0) > + return -1; > + offset = get_item_line_offset(todo_list, todo_list->current + 1); > + if (buf.len != todo_list->buf.len - offset || > + memcmp(buf.buf, todo_list->buf.buf + offset, buf.len)) { > /* Reread the todo file if it has changed. */ > todo_list_release(todo_list); > if (read_populate_todo(r, todo_list, opts)) As we already have the contents of hte file in the buffer, we could further refactor the code around read_populate_todo() to tell it not to reopen and reread the rebase-todo file (which risks toctou race), but that is OK for now, I would think. > @@ -4271,6 +4267,7 @@ static int reread_todo_if_changed(struct repository *r, > /* `current` will be incremented on return */ > todo_list->current = -1; > } > + strbuf_release(&buf); > > return 0; > } > diff --git a/sequencer.h b/sequencer.h > index d57d8ea23d7..cdeb0c6be47 100644 > --- a/sequencer.h > +++ b/sequencer.h > @@ -116,7 +116,6 @@ struct todo_list { > struct todo_item *items; > int nr, alloc, current; > int done_nr, total_nr; > - struct stat_data stat; Good riddance ;-) Will queue. Thanks.