On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, Daniel Barkalow wrote: > > The thing that's hopeless isn't including the index; it's including the > index that's simultaneously being regenerated. Yeah. I was thinking about just putting the result in a new index. It's *usually* what the user wants anyway. The whole complexity with updating the old index is really nasty. There are other complexities there, but the index one is the worst. When doing a stupid try at using "traverse_trees()" (which in itself was not that easy - traverse_trees() is a fundamentally simpler walker and _different_ enough to not match well), one of the bigger issues is that traverse_trees() wants to do the directories in a separate phase from the files (becasue they sort differently), and that coupled with the fact that we do a kind of "read-modify-write" on the index makes it all really ugly. I'm still working on it, but it's nastier than I was hoping for. Maybe you can come up with a better solution. Linus -- 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
