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2008-08-20Merge branch 'jc/index-extended-flags'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+1
* jc/index-extended-flags: index: future proof for "extended" index entries
2008-08-17index: future proof for "extended" index entriesLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+1
We do not have any more bits in the on-disk index flags word, but we would need to have more in the future. Use the last remaining bits as a signal to tell us that the index entry we are looking at is an extended one. Since we do not understand the extended format yet, we will just error out when we see it. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-03teach index_fd to work with pipesLibravatar Dmitry Potapov1-1/+0
index_fd can now work with file descriptors that are not normal files but any readable file. If the given file descriptor is a regular file then mmap() is used; for other files, strbuf_read is used. The path parameter, which has been used as hint for filters, can be NULL now to indicate that the file should be hashed literally without any filter. The index_pipe function is removed as redundant. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-28Make use of stat.ctime configurableLibravatar Alex Riesen1-0/+1
A new configuration variable 'core.trustctime' is introduced to allow ignoring st_ctime information when checking if paths in the working tree has changed, because there are situations where it produces too much false positives. Like when file system crawlers keep changing it when scanning and using the ctime for marking scanned files. The default is to notice ctime changes. Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-27git-mv: Keep moved index entries inactLibravatar Petr Baudis1-0/+2
The rewrite of git-mv from a shell script to a builtin was perhaps a little too straightforward: the git add and git rm queues were emulated directly, which resulted in a rather complicated code and caused an inconsistent behaviour when moving dirty index entries; git mv would update the entry based on working tree state, except in case of overwrites, where the new entry would still have sha1 of the old file. This patch introduces rename_index_entry_at() into the index toolkit, which will rename an entry while removing any entries the new entry might render duplicate. This is then used in git mv instead of all the file queues, resulting in a major simplification of the code and an inevitable change in git mv -n output format. Also the code used to refuse renaming overwriting symlink with a regular file and vice versa; there is no need for that. A few new tests have been added to the testsuite to reflect this change. Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-20"needs update" considered harmfulLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+1
"git update-index --refresh", "git reset" and "git add --refresh" have reported paths that have local modifications as "needs update" since the beginning of git. Although this is logically correct in that you need to update the index at that path before you can commit that change, it is now becoming more and more clear, especially with the continuous push for user friendliness since 1.5.0 series, that the message is suboptimal. After all, the change may be something the user might want to get rid of, and "updating" would be absolutely a wrong thing to do if that is the case. I prepared two alternatives to solve this. Both aim to reword the message to more neutral "locally modified". This patch is a more intrusive variant that changes the message for only Porcelain commands ("add" and "reset") while keeping the plumbing "update-index" intact. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-20Merge branch 'maint'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
* maint: fix usage string for git grep refresh-index: fix bitmask assignment Conflicts: builtin-grep.c
2008-07-20refresh-index: fix bitmask assignmentLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
5fdeacb (Teach update-index about --ignore-submodules, 2008-05-14) added a new refresh option flag but did not assign a unique bit for it correctly, and broke "update-index --ignore-missing". This fixes it. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-15Merge branch 'mv/merge-in-c'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+3
* mv/merge-in-c: reduce_heads(): protect from duplicate input reduce_heads(): thinkofix Add a new test for git-merge-resolve t6021: add a new test for git-merge-resolve Teach merge.log to "git-merge" again Build in merge Fix t7601-merge-pull-config.sh on AIX git-commit-tree: make it usable from other builtins Add new test case to ensure git-merge prepends the custom merge message Add new test case to ensure git-merge reduces octopus parents when possible Introduce reduce_heads() Introduce get_merge_bases_many() Add new test to ensure git-merge handles more than 25 refs. Introduce get_octopus_merge_bases() in commit.c git-fmt-merge-msg: make it usable from other builtins Move read_cache_unmerged() to read-cache.c Add new test to ensure git-merge handles pull.twohead and pull.octopus Move parse-options's skip_prefix() to git-compat-util.h Move commit_list_count() to commit.c Move split_cmdline() to alias.c Conflicts: Makefile parse-options.c
2008-07-14restore legacy behavior for read_sha1_file()Libravatar Nicolas Pitre1-0/+3
Since commit 8eca0b47ff1598a6d163df9358c0e0c9bd92d4c8, it is possible for read_sha1_file() to return NULL even with existing objects when they are corrupted. Previously a corrupted object would have terminated the program immediately, effectively making read_sha1_file() return NULL only when specified object is not found. Let's restore this behavior for all users of read_sha1_file() and provide a separate function with the ability to not terminate when bad objects are encountered. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-07Merge branch 'dr/ceiling'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+3
* dr/ceiling: Eliminate an unnecessary chdir("..") Add support for GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES Fold test-absolute-path into test-path-utils Implement normalize_absolute_path Conflicts: cache.h setup.c
2008-07-07Merge branch 'db/no-git-config'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
* db/no-git-config: Only use GIT_CONFIG in "git config", not other programs Conflicts: Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.txt
2008-07-02Merge branch 'j6t/mingw'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
* j6t/mingw: (38 commits) compat/pread.c: Add a forward declaration to fix a warning Windows: Fix ntohl() related warnings about printf formatting Windows: TMP and TEMP environment variables specify a temporary directory. Windows: Make 'git help -a' work. Windows: Work around an oddity when a pipe with no reader is written to. Windows: Make the pager work. When installing, be prepared that template_dir may be relative. Windows: Use a relative default template_dir and ETC_GITCONFIG Windows: Compute the fallback for exec_path from the program invocation. Turn builtin_exec_path into a function. Windows: Use a customized struct stat that also has the st_blocks member. Windows: Add a custom implementation for utime(). Windows: Add a new lstat and fstat implementation based on Win32 API. Windows: Implement a custom spawnve(). Windows: Implement wrappers for gethostbyname(), socket(), and connect(). Windows: Work around incompatible sort and find. Windows: Implement asynchronous functions as threads. Windows: Disambiguate DOS style paths from SSH URLs. Windows: A rudimentary poll() emulation. Windows: Implement start_command(). ...
2008-07-01Only use GIT_CONFIG in "git config", not other programsLibravatar Daniel Barkalow1-1/+1
For everything other than using "git config" to read or write a git-style config file that isn't the current repo's config file, GIT_CONFIG was actively detrimental. Rather than argue over which programs are important enough to have work anyway, just fix all of them at the root. Also removes GIT_LOCAL_CONFIG, which would only be useful for programs that do want to use global git-specific config, but not the repo's own git-specific config, and want to use some other, presumably git-specific config. Despite being documented, I can't find any sign that it was ever used. Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-30Move read_cache_unmerged() to read-cache.cLibravatar Miklos Vajna1-0/+2
builtin-read-tree has a read_cache_unmerged() which is useful for other builtins, for example builtin-merge uses it as well. Move it to read-cache.c to avoid code duplication. Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-30Move split_cmdline() to alias.cLibravatar Miklos Vajna1-0/+1
split_cmdline() is currently used for aliases only, but later it can be useful for other builtins as well. Move it to alias.c for now, indicating that originally it's for aliases, but we'll have it in libgit this way. Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-26Teach "diff --check" about new blank lines at endLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+1
When a patch adds new blank lines at the end, "git apply --whitespace" warns. This teaches "diff --check" to do the same. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-26check_and_emit_line(): rename and refactorLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+2
The function name was too bland and not explicit enough as to what it is checking. Split it into two, and call the one that checks if there is a whitespace breakage "ws_check()", and call the other one that checks and emits the line after color coding "ws_check_emit()". Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-25Merge branch 'lt/config-fsync'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+1
* lt/config-fsync: Add config option to enable 'fsync()' of object files Split up default "i18n" and "branch" config parsing into helper routines Split up default "user" config parsing into helper routine Split up default "core" config parsing into helper routine
2008-06-25clone: create intermediate directories of destination repoLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+1
The shell version used to use "mkdir -p" to create the repo path, but the C version just calls "mkdir". Let's replicate the old behavior. We have to create the git and worktree leading dirs separately; while most of the time, the worktree dir contains the git dir (as .git), the user can override this using GIT_WORK_TREE. We can reuse safe_create_leading_directories, but we need to make a copy of our const buffer to do so. Since merge-recursive uses the same pattern, we can factor this out into a global function. This has two other cleanup advantages for merge-recursive: 1. mkdir_p wasn't a very good name. "mkdir -p foo/bar" actually creates bar, but this function just creates the leading directories. 2. mkdir_p took a mode argument, but it was completely ignored. Acked-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-24optimize verify-pack a bitLibravatar Nicolas Pitre1-0/+1
Using find_pack_entry_one() to get object offsets is rather suboptimal when nth_packed_object_offset() can be used directly. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-24clone: create intermediate directories of destination repoLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+1
The shell version used to use "mkdir -p" to create the repo path, but the C version just calls "mkdir". Let's replicate the old behavior. We have to create the git and worktree leading dirs separately; while most of the time, the worktree dir contains the git dir (as .git), the user can override this using GIT_WORK_TREE. We can reuse safe_create_leading_directories, but we need to make a copy of our const buffer to do so. Since merge-recursive uses the same pattern, we can factor this out into a global function. This has two other cleanup advantages for merge-recursive: 1. mkdir_p wasn't a very good name. "mkdir -p foo/bar" actually creates bar, but this function just creates the leading directories. 2. mkdir_p took a mode argument, but it was completely ignored. Acked-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-23implement some resilience against pack corruptionsLibravatar Nicolas Pitre1-0/+2
We should be able to fall back to loose objects or alternative packs when a pack becomes corrupted. This is especially true when an object exists in one pack only as a delta but its base object is corrupted. Currently there is no way to retrieve the former object even if the later is available in another pack or loose. This patch allows for a delta to be resolved (with a performance cost) using a base object from a source other than the pack where that delta is located. Same thing for non-delta objects: rather than failing outright, a search is made in other packs or used loose when the currently active pack has it but corrupted. Of course git will become extremely noisy with error messages when that happens. However, if the operation succeeds nevertheless, a simple 'git repack -a -f -d' will "fix" the corrupted repository given that all corrupted objects have a good duplicate somewhere in the object store, possibly manually copied from another source. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-23Windows: Treat Windows style path names.Libravatar Johannes Sixt1-1/+1
GIT's guts work with a forward slash as a path separators. We do not change that. Rather we make sure that only "normalized" paths enter the depths of the machinery. We have to translate backslashes to forward slashes in the prefix and in command line arguments. Fortunately, all of them are passed through functions in setup.c. A macro has_dos_drive_path() is defined that checks whether a path begins with a drive letter+colon combination. This predicate is always false on Unix. Another macro is_dir_sep() abstracts that a backslash is also a directory separator on Windows. Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
2008-06-22Merge branch 'sn/static'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+0
* sn/static: config.c: make git_env_bool() static environment.c: remove unused function
2008-06-19config.c: make git_env_bool() staticLibravatar しらいしななこ1-1/+0
This function is not used by any other file. Signed-off-by: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-19environment.c: remove unused functionLibravatar しらいしななこ1-1/+0
get_refs_directory() is not used anywhere. Signed-off-by: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-19Make git_dir a path relative to work_tree in setup_work_tree()Libravatar Linus Torvalds1-0/+1
Once we find the absolute paths for git_dir and work_tree, we can make git_dir a relative path since we know pwd will be work_tree. This should save the kernel some time traversing the path to work_tree all the time if git_dir is inside work_tree. Daniel's patch didn't apply for me as-is, so I recreated it with some differences, and here are the numbers from ten runs each. There is some IO for me - probably due to more-or-less random flushing of the journal - so the variation is bigger than I'd like, but whatever: Before: real 0m8.135s real 0m7.933s real 0m8.080s real 0m7.954s real 0m7.949s real 0m8.112s real 0m7.934s real 0m8.059s real 0m7.979s real 0m8.038s After: real 0m7.685s real 0m7.968s real 0m7.703s real 0m7.850s real 0m7.995s real 0m7.817s real 0m7.963s real 0m7.955s real 0m7.848s real 0m7.969s Now, going by "best of ten" (on the assumption that the longer numbers are all due to IO), I'm saying a 7.933s -> 7.685s reduction, and it does seem to be outside of the noise (ie the "after" case never broke 8s, while the "before" case did so half the time). So looks like about 3% to me. Doing it for a slightly smaller test-case (just the "arch" subdirectory) gets more stable numbers probably due to not filling the journal with metadata updates, so we have: Before: real 0m1.633s real 0m1.633s real 0m1.633s real 0m1.632s real 0m1.632s real 0m1.630s real 0m1.634s real 0m1.631s real 0m1.632s real 0m1.632s After: real 0m1.610s real 0m1.609s real 0m1.610s real 0m1.608s real 0m1.607s real 0m1.610s real 0m1.609s real 0m1.611s real 0m1.608s real 0m1.611s where I'ld just take the averages and say 1.632 vs 1.610, which is just over 1% peformance improvement. So it's not in the noise, but it's not as big as I initially thought and measured. (That said, it obviously depends on how deep the working directory path is too, and whether it is behind NFS or something else that might need to cause more work to look up). Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-18Add config option to enable 'fsync()' of object filesLibravatar Linus Torvalds1-0/+1
As explained in the documentation[*] this is totally useless on filesystems that do ordered/journalled data writes, but it can be a useful safety feature on filesystems like HFS+ that only journal the metadata, not the actual file contents. It defaults to off, although we could presumably in theory some day auto-enable it on a per-filesystem basis. [*] Yes, I updated the docs for the thing. Hell really _has_ frozen over, and the four horsemen are probably just beyond the horizon. EVERYBODY PANIC! Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-16sha1_file.c: simplify parse_pack_index()Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+0
It was implemented as a thin wrapper around an otherwise unused helper function parse_pack_index_file(). The code becomes simpler and easier to read by consolidating the two. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-13sha1_file.c: dead code removalLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+0
write_sha1_from_fd() and write_sha1_to_fd() were dead code nobody called, neither the latter's helper repack_object() was. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-06Use nonrelative paths instead of absolute paths for cloned repositoriesLibravatar Daniel Barkalow1-0/+1
Particularly for the "alternates" file, if one will be created, we want a path that doesn't depend on the current directory, but we want to retain any symlinks in the path as given and any in the user's view of the current directory when the path was given. Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-31Make pack creation always fsync() the resultLibravatar Linus Torvalds1-0/+1
This means that we can depend on packs always being stable on disk, simplifying a lot of the object serialization worries. And unlike loose objects, serializing pack creation IO isn't going to be a performance killer. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-25Merge branch 'js/config-cb'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-5/+5
* js/config-cb: Provide git_config with a callback-data parameter Conflicts: builtin-add.c builtin-cat-file.c
2008-05-25Merge branch 'jc/add-n-u'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-6/+7
* jc/add-n-u: Make git add -n and git -u -n output consistent "git-add -n -u" should not add but just report Conflicts: builtin-add.c builtin-mv.c cache.h read-cache.c
2008-05-25Merge branch 'db/clone-in-c'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+7
* db/clone-in-c: Add test for cloning with "--reference" repo being a subset of source repo Add a test for another combination of --reference Test that --reference actually suppresses fetching referenced objects clone: fall back to copying if hardlinking fails builtin-clone.c: Need to closedir() in copy_or_link_directory() builtin-clone: fix initial checkout Build in clone Provide API access to init_db() Add a function to set a non-default work tree Allow for having for_each_ref() list extra refs Have a constant extern refspec for "--tags" Add a library function to add an alternate to the alternates file Add a lockfile function to append to a file Mark the list of refs to fetch as const Conflicts: cache.h t/t5700-clone-reference.sh
2008-05-25Merge branch 'js/ignore-submodule'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+1
* js/ignore-submodule: Ignore dirty submodule states during rebase and stash Teach update-index about --ignore-submodules diff options: Introduce --ignore-submodules
2008-05-23Merge branch 'bc/repack'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+1
* bc/repack: Documentation/git-repack.txt: document new -A behaviour let pack-objects do the writing of unreachable objects as loose objects add a force_object_loose() function builtin-gc.c: deprecate --prune, it now really has no effect git-gc: always use -A when manually repacking repack: modify behavior of -A option to leave unreferenced objects unpacked Conflicts: builtin-pack-objects.c
2008-05-23Add support for GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIESLibravatar David Reiss1-0/+2
Make git recognize a new environment variable that prevents it from chdir'ing up into specified directories when looking for a GIT_DIR. Useful for avoiding slow network directories. For example, I use git in an environment where homedirs are automounted and "ls /home/nonexistent" takes about 9 seconds. Setting GIT_CEILING_DIRS="/home" allows "git help -a" (for bash completion) and "git symbolic-ref" (for my shell prompt) to run in a reasonable time. Signed-off-by: David Reiss <dreiss@facebook.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-23Implement normalize_absolute_pathLibravatar David Reiss1-0/+1
normalize_absolute_path removes several oddities form absolute paths, giving nice clean paths like "/dir/sub1/sub2". Also add a test case for this utility, based on a new test program (in the style of test-sha1). Signed-off-by: David Reiss <dreiss@facebook.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-21Merge branch 'ar/add-unreadable'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+7
* ar/add-unreadable: Add a config option to ignore errors for git-add Add a test for git-add --ignore-errors Add --ignore-errors to git-add to allow it to skip files with read errors Extend interface of add_files_to_cache to allow ignore indexing errors Make the exit code of add_file_to_index actually useful
2008-05-21"git-add -n -u" should not add but just reportLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-5/+7
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-15Teach update-index about --ignore-submodulesLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-0/+1
Like with the diff machinery, update-index should sometimes just ignore submodules (e.g. to determine a clean state before a rebase). Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-14Merge branch 'sb/committer'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+1
* sb/committer: commit: Show committer if automatic commit: Show author if different from committer Preparation to call determine_author_info from prepare_to_commit
2008-05-14Provide git_config with a callback-data parameterLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-5/+5
git_config() only had a function parameter, but no callback data parameter. This assumes that all callback functions only modify global variables. With this patch, every callback gets a void * parameter, and it is hoped that this will help the libification effort. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-13add a force_object_loose() functionLibravatar Nicolas Pitre1-0/+1
This is meant to force the creation of a loose object even if it already exists packed. Needed for the next commit. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-12Extend interface of add_files_to_cache to allow ignore indexing errorsLibravatar Alex Riesen1-1/+7
Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-11Merge branch 'lt/core-optim'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-17/+24
* lt/core-optim: Optimize symlink/directory detection Avoid some unnecessary lstat() calls is_racy_timestamp(): do not check timestamp for gitlinks diff-lib.c: rename check_work_tree_entity() diff: a submodule not checked out is not modified Add t7506 to test submodule related functions for git-status t4027: test diff for submodule with empty directory Make git-add behave more sensibly in a case-insensitive environment When adding files to the index, add support for case-independent matches Make unpack-tree update removed files before any updated files Make branch merging aware of underlying case-insensitive filsystems Add 'core.ignorecase' option Make hash_name_lookup able to do case-independent lookups Make "index_name_exists()" return the cache_entry it found Move name hashing functions into a file of its own Make unpack_trees_options bit flags actual bitfields
2008-05-11Allow tracking branches to set up rebase by default.Libravatar Dustin Sallings1-0/+8
Change cd67e4d4 introduced a new configuration parameter that told pull to automatically perform a rebase instead of a merge. This change provides a configuration option to enable this feature automatically when creating a new branch. If the variable branch.autosetuprebase applies for a branch that's being created, that branch will have branch.<name>.rebase set to true. Signed-off-by: Dustin Sallings <dustin@spy.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-10Optimize symlink/directory detectionLibravatar Linus Torvalds1-1/+1
This is the base for making symlink detection in the middle fo a pathname saner and (much) more efficient. Under various loads, we want to verify that the full path leading up to a filename is a real directory tree, and that when we successfully do an 'lstat()' on a filename, we don't get a false positive due to a symlink in the middle of the path that git should have seen as a symlink, not as a normal path component. The 'has_symlink_leading_path()' function already did this, and cached a single level of symlink information, but didn't cache the _lack_ of a symlink, so the normal behaviour was actually the wrong way around, and we ended up doing an 'lstat()' on each path component to check that it was a real directory. This caches the last detected full directory and symlink entries, and speeds up especially deep directory structures a lot by avoiding to lstat() all the directories leading up to each entry in the index. [ This can - and should - probably be extended upon so that we eventually never do a bare 'lstat()' on any path entries at *all* when checking the index, but always check the full path carefully. Right now we do not generally check the whole path for all our normal quick index revalidation. We should also make sure that we're careful about all the invalidation, ie when we remove a link and replace it by a directory we should invalidate the symlink cache if it matches (and vice versa for the directory cache). But regardless, the basic function needs to be sane to do that. The old 'has_symlink_leading_path()' was not capable enough - or indeed the code readable enough - to really do that sanely. So I'm pushing this as not just an optimization, but as a base for further work. ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>