Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Sat, 12 Jan 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: > >> It makes builtin-commit.c use the same logic that "git read-tree -i -m" >> does (which is what the old shell script did), and it seems to pass the >> test-suite, and it looks pretty obvious. > > The only issue I know about with using unpack_trees in C as a replacement > for read-tree in shell is that unpack_trees leaves "deletion" index > entries in memory which are not written to disk,... I do not think you have to worry about that one. That "to be deleted" was a Linus invention and he surely remembers it. write_index() function of course knows about skipping them (they are marked as !ce->ce_mode). I think the patch is safe. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
