The name-hash subsystem that is used to cope with case insensitive
filesystems keeps track of directories and their on-filesystem
cases for all the paths in the index by holding a pointer to a
randomly chosen cache entry that is inside the directory (for its
ce->ce_name component). This pointer was not updated even when the
cache entry was removed from the index, leading to use after free.
This was fixed by recording the path for each directory instead of
borrowing cache entries and restructuring the API somewhat.
* dt/name-hash-dir-entry-fix:
name-hash: don't reuse cache_entry in dir_entry
Stop reusing cache_entry in dir_entry; doing so causes a
use-after-free bug.
During merges, we free entries that we no longer need in the
destination index. But those entries might have also been stored in
the dir_entry cache, and when a later call to add_to_index found them,
they would be used after being freed.
To prevent this, change dir_entry to store a copy of the name instead
of a pointer to a cache_entry. This entails some refactoring of code
that expects the cache_entry.
Keith McGuigan <kmcguigan@twitter.com> diagnosed this bug and wrote
the initial patch, but this version does not use any of Keith's code.
Helped-by: Keith McGuigan <kmcguigan@twitter.com>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Many allocations that is manually counted (correctly) that are
followed by strcpy/sprintf have been replaced with a less error
prone constructs such as xstrfmt.
Macintosh-specific breakage was noticed and corrected in this
reroll.
* jk/war-on-sprintf: (70 commits)
name-rev: use strip_suffix to avoid magic numbers
use strbuf_complete to conditionally append slash
fsck: use for_each_loose_file_in_objdir
Makefile: drop D_INO_IN_DIRENT build knob
fsck: drop inode-sorting code
convert strncpy to memcpy
notes: document length of fanout path with a constant
color: add color_set helper for copying raw colors
prefer memcpy to strcpy
help: clean up kfmclient munging
receive-pack: simplify keep_arg computation
avoid sprintf and strcpy with flex arrays
use alloc_ref rather than hand-allocating "struct ref"
color: add overflow checks for parsing colors
drop strcpy in favor of raw sha1_to_hex
use sha1_to_hex_r() instead of strcpy
daemon: use cld->env_array when re-spawning
stat_tracking_info: convert to argv_array
http-push: use an argv_array for setup_revisions
fetch-pack: use argv_array for index-pack / unpack-objects
...
On a case insensitive filesystems, setting GIT_WORK_TREE variable
using a random cases that does not agree with what the filesystem
thinks confused Git that it wasn't inside the working tree.
* js/icase-wt-detection:
setup: fix "inside work tree" detection on case-insensitive filesystems
Allow a later "!/abc/def" to override an earlier "/abc" that
appears in the same .gitignore file to make it easier to express
"everything in /abc directory is ignored, except for ...".
* nd/ignore-then-not-ignore:
dir.c: don't exclude whole dir prematurely if neg pattern may match
dir.c: make last_exclude_matching_from_list() run til the end
When working with paths in strbufs, we frequently want to
ensure that a directory contains a trailing slash before
appending to it. We can shorten this code (and make the
intent more obvious) by calling strbuf_complete.
Most of these cases are trivially identical conversions, but
there are two things to note:
- in a few cases we did not check that the strbuf is
non-empty (which would lead to an out-of-bounds memory
access). These were generally not triggerable in
practice, either from earlier assertions, or typically
because we would have just fed the strbuf to opendir(),
which would choke on an empty path.
- in a few cases we indexed the buffer with "original_len"
or similar, rather than the current sb->len, and it is
not immediately obvious from the diff that they are the
same. In all of these cases, I manually verified that
the strbuf does not change between the assignment and
the strbuf_complete call.
This does not convert cases which look like:
if (sb->len && !is_dir_sep(sb->buf[sb->len - 1]))
strbuf_addch(sb, '/');
as those are obviously semantically different. Some of these
cases arguably should be doing that, but that is out of
scope for this change, which aims purely for cleanup with no
behavior change (and at least it will make such sites easier
to find and examine in the future, as we can grep for
strbuf_complete).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Git has a config variable to indicate that it is operating on a file
system that is case-insensitive: core.ignoreCase. But the
`dir_inside_of()` function did not respect that. As a result, if Git's
idea of the current working directory disagreed in its upper/lower case
with the `GIT_WORK_TREE` variable (e.g. `C:\test` vs `c:\test`) the
user would be greeted by the error message
fatal: git-am cannot be used without a working tree.
when trying to run a rebase.
This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/402 (reported by
Daniel Harding).
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If there is a pattern "!foo/bar", this patch makes it not exclude "foo"
right away. This gives us a chance to examine "foo" and re-include
"foo/bar".
In order for it to detect that the directory under examination should
not be excluded right away, in other words it is a parent directory of a
negative pattern, the "directory path" of the negative pattern must be
literal. Patterns like "!f?o/bar" can't stop "foo" from being excluded.
Basename matching (i.e. "no slashes in the pattern") or must-be-dir
matching (i.e. "trailing slash in the pattern") does not work well with
this. For example, if we descend in "foo" and are examining "foo/abc",
current code for "foo/" pattern will check if path "foo/abc", not "foo",
is a directory. The same problem with basename matching. These may need
big code reorg to make it work.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The next patch adds some post processing to the result value before it's
returned to the caller. Keep all branches reach the end of the function,
so we can do it all in one place.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The experimental untracked-cache feature were buggy when paths with
a few levels of subdirectories are involved.
* dt/untracked-subdir:
untracked cache: fix entry invalidation
untracked-cache: fix subdirectory handling
t7063: use --force-untracked-cache to speed up a bit
untracked-cache: support sparse checkout
The experimental untracked-cache feature were buggy when paths with
a few levels of subdirectories are involved.
* dt/untracked-subdir:
untracked cache: fix entry invalidation
untracked-cache: fix subdirectory handling
git_path() and mkpath() are handy helper functions but it is easy
to misuse, as the callers need to be careful to keep the number of
active results below 4. Their uses have been reduced.
* jk/git-path:
memoize common git-path "constant" files
get_repo_path: refactor path-allocation
find_hook: keep our own static buffer
refs.c: remove_empty_directories can take a strbuf
refs.c: avoid git_path assignment in lock_ref_sha1_basic
refs.c: avoid repeated git_path calls in rename_tmp_log
refs.c: simplify strbufs in reflog setup and writing
path.c: drop git_path_submodule
refs.c: remove extra git_path calls from read_loose_refs
remote.c: drop extraneous local variable from migrate_file
prefer mkpathdup to mkpath in assignments
prefer git_pathdup to git_path in some possibly-dangerous cases
add_to_alternates_file: don't add duplicate entries
t5700: modernize style
cache.h: complete set of git_path_submodule helpers
cache.h: clarify documentation for git_path, et al
An experimental "untracked cache" feature used uname(2) in a
slightly unportable way.
* cb/uname-in-untracked:
untracked: fix detection of uname(2) failure
First, the current code in untracked_cache_invalidate_path() is wrong
because it can only handle paths "a" or "a/b", not "a/b/c" because
lookup_untracked() only looks for entries directly under the given
directory. In the last case, it will look for the entry "b/c" in
directory "a" instead. This means if you delete or add an entry in a
subdirectory, untracked cache may become out of date because it does not
invalidate properly. This is noticed by David Turner.
The second problem is about invalidation inside a fully untracked/excluded
directory. In this case we may have to invalidate back to root. See the
comment block for detail.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Previously, some calls lookup_untracked would pass a full path. But
lookup_untracked assumes that the portion of the path up to and
including to the untracked_cache_dir has been removed. So
lookup_untracked would be looking in the untracked_cache for 'foo' for
'foo/bar' (instead of just looking for 'bar'). This would cause
untracked cache corruption.
Instead, treat_directory learns to track the base length of the parent
directory, so that only the last path component is passed to
lookup_untracked.
Helped-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Allow untracked cache (experimental) to be used when sparse
checkout (experimental) is also in use.
* dt/untracked-sparse:
untracked-cache: support sparse checkout
One of the most common uses of git_path() is to pass a
constant, like git_path("MERGE_MSG"). This has two
drawbacks:
1. The return value is a static buffer, and the lifetime
is dependent on other calls to git_path, etc.
2. There's no compile-time checking of the pathname. This
is OK for a one-off (after all, we have to spell it
correctly at least once), but many of these constant
strings appear throughout the code.
This patch introduces a series of functions to "memoize"
these strings, which are essentially globals for the
lifetime of the program. We compute the value once, take
ownership of the buffer, and return the cached value for
subsequent calls. cache.h provides a helper macro for
defining these functions as one-liners, and defines a few
common ones for global use.
Using a macro is a little bit gross, but it does nicely
document the purpose of the functions. If we need to touch
them all later (e.g., because we learned how to change the
git_dir variable at runtime, and need to invalidate all of
the stored values), it will be much easier to have the
complete list.
Note that the shared-global functions have separate, manual
declarations. We could do something clever with the macros
(e.g., expand it to a declaration in some places, and a
declaration _and_ a definition in path.c). But there aren't
that many, and it's probably better to stay away from
too-magical macros.
Likewise, if we abandon the C preprocessor in favor of
generating these with a script, we could get much fancier.
E.g., normalizing "FOO/BAR-BAZ" into "git_path_foo_bar_baz".
But the small amount of saved typing is probably not worth
the resulting confusion to readers who want to grep for the
function's definition.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
An experimental "untracked cache" feature used uname(2) in a
slightly unportable way.
* cb/uname-in-untracked:
untracked: fix detection of uname(2) failure
Remove a check that would disable the untracked cache for sparse
checkouts. Add tests that ensure that the untracked cache works with
sparse checkouts -- specifically considering the case that a file
foo/bar is checked out, but foo/.gitignore is not.
Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
According to POSIX specification uname(2) must return -1 on failure
and a non-negative value on success. Although many implementations
do return 0 on success it is valid to return any positive value for
success. In particular, Solaris returns 1.
Signed-off-by: Charles Bailey <cbailey32@bloomberg.net>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Code clean-up.
* rs/janitorial:
dir: remove unused variable sb
clean: remove unused variable buf
use file_exists() to check if a file exists in the worktree
Teach the index to optionally remember already seen untracked files
to speed up "git status" in a working tree with tons of cruft.
* nd/untracked-cache: (24 commits)
git-status.txt: advertisement for untracked cache
untracked cache: guard and disable on system changes
mingw32: add uname()
t7063: tests for untracked cache
update-index: test the system before enabling untracked cache
update-index: manually enable or disable untracked cache
status: enable untracked cache
untracked-cache: temporarily disable with $GIT_DISABLE_UNTRACKED_CACHE
untracked cache: mark index dirty if untracked cache is updated
untracked cache: print stats with $GIT_TRACE_UNTRACKED_STATS
untracked cache: avoid racy timestamps
read-cache.c: split racy stat test to a separate function
untracked cache: invalidate at index addition or removal
untracked cache: load from UNTR index extension
untracked cache: save to an index extension
ewah: add convenient wrapper ewah_serialize_strbuf()
untracked cache: don't open non-existent .gitignore
untracked cache: mark what dirs should be recursed/saved
untracked cache: record/validate dir mtime and reuse cached output
untracked cache: make a wrapper around {open,read,close}dir()
...
core.excludesfile (defaulting to $XDG_HOME/git/ignore) is supposed
to be overridden by repository-specific .git/info/exclude file, but
the order was swapped from the beginning. This belatedly fixes it.
* jc/gitignore-precedence:
ignore: info/exclude should trump core.excludesfile
Teach the codepaths that read .gitignore and .gitattributes files
that these files encoded in UTF-8 may have UTF-8 BOM marker at the
beginning; this makes it in line with what we do for configuration
files already.
* cn/bom-in-gitignore:
attr: skip UTF8 BOM at the beginning of the input file
config: use utf8_bom[] from utf.[ch] in git_parse_source()
utf8-bom: introduce skip_utf8_bom() helper
add_excludes_from_file: clarify the bom skipping logic
dir: allow a BOM at the beginning of exclude files
Code clean-up for xdg configuration path support.
* pt/xdg-config-path:
path.c: remove home_config_paths()
git-config: replace use of home_config_paths()
git-commit: replace use of home_config_paths()
credential-store.c: replace home_config_paths() with xdg_config_home()
dir.c: replace home_config_paths() with xdg_config_home()
attr.c: replace home_config_paths() with xdg_config_home()
path.c: implement xdg_config_home()
Since only the xdg excludes file path is required, simplify the code by
replacing use of home_config_paths() with xdg_config_home().
Signed-off-by: Paul Tan <pyokagan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Teach the codepaths that read .gitignore and .gitattributes files
that these files encoded in UTF-8 may have UTF-8 BOM marker at the
beginning; this makes it in line with what we do for configuration
files already.
* cn/bom-in-gitignore:
attr: skip UTF8 BOM at the beginning of the input file
config: use utf8_bom[] from utf.[ch] in git_parse_source()
utf8-bom: introduce skip_utf8_bom() helper
add_excludes_from_file: clarify the bom skipping logic
dir: allow a BOM at the beginning of exclude files
$GIT_DIR/info/exclude and core.excludesfile (which falls back to
$XDG_HOME/git/ignore) are both ways to override the ignore pattern
lists given by the project in .gitignore files. The former, which
is per-repository personal preference, should take precedence over
the latter, which is a personal preference default across different
repositories that are accessed from that machine. The existing
documentation also agrees.
However, the precedence order was screwed up between these two from
the very beginning when 896bdfa2 (add: Support specifying an
excludes file with a configuration variable, 2007-02-27) introduced
core.excludesfile variable.
Noticed-by: Yohei Endo <yoheie@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
With the recent change to ignore the UTF8 BOM at the beginning of
.gitignore files, we now have two codepaths that do such a skipping
(the other one is for reading the configuration files).
Introduce utf8_bom[] constant string and skip_utf8_bom() helper
and teach .gitignore code how to use it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Even though the previous step shifts where the "entry" begins, we
still iterate over the original buf[], which may begin with the
UTF-8 BOM we are supposed to be skipping. At the end of the first
line, the code grabs the contents of it starting at "entry", so
there is nothing wrong per-se, but the logic looks really confused.
Instead, move the buf pointer and shrink its size, to truly
pretend that UTF-8 BOM did not exist in the input.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some text editors like Notepad or LibreOffice write an UTF-8 BOM in
order to indicate that the file is Unicode text rather than whatever the
current locale would indicate.
If someone uses such an editor to edit a gitignore file, we are left
with those three bytes at the beginning of the file. If we do not skip
them, we will attempt to match a filename with the BOM as prefix, which
won't match the files the user is expecting.
Signed-off-by: Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The expected call sequence is for the caller to use match_pathspec()
repeatedly on a set of pathspecs, accumulating the "hits" in a
separate array, and then call this function to diagnose a pathspec
that never matched anything, as that can indicate a typo from the
command line, e.g. "git commit Maekfile".
Many builtin commands use this function from builtin/ls-files.c,
which is not a very healthy arrangement. ls-files might have been
the first command to feel the need for such a helper, but the need
is shared by everybody who uses the "match and then report" pattern.
Move it to dir.c where match_pathspec() is defined.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If the user enables untracked cache, then
- move worktree to an unsupported filesystem
- or simply upgrade OS
- or move the whole (portable) disk from one machine to another
- or access a shared fs from another machine
there's no guarantee that untracked cache can still function properly.
Record the worktree location and OS footprint in the cache. If it
changes, err on the safe side and disable the cache. The user can
'update-index --untracked-cache' again to make sure all conditions are
met.
This adds a new requirement that setup_git_directory* must be called
before read_cache() because we need worktree location by then, or the
cache is dropped.
This change does not cover all bases, you can fool it if you try
hard. The point is to stop accidents.
Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Helped-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Helped-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This can be used to double check if results with untracked cache are
correctly, compared to vanilla version. Untracked cache remains in
index, but not used.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This could be used to verify correct behavior in tests
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When a directory is updated within the same second that its timestamp
is last saved, we cannot realize the directory has been updated by
checking timestamps. Assume the worst (something is update). See
29e4d36 (Racy GIT - 2005-12-20) for more information.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Ideally we should implement untracked_cache_remove_from_index() and
untracked_cache_add_to_index() so that they update untracked cache
right away instead of invalidating it and wait for read_directory()
next time to deal with it. But that may need some more work in
unpack-trees.c. So stay simple as the first step.
The new call in add_index_entry_with_check() may look strange because
new calls usually stay close to cache_tree_invalidate_path(). We do it
a bit later than c_t_i_p() in this function because if it's about
replacing the entry with the same name, we don't care (but cache-tree
does).
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Helped-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This cuts down a signficant number of open(.gitignore) because most
directories usually don't have .gitignore files.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If we redo this thing in a functional style, we would have one struct
untracked_dir as input tree and another as output. The input is used
for verification. The output is a brand new tree, reflecting current
worktree.
But that means recreate a lot of dir nodes even if a lot could be
shared between input and output trees in good cases. So we go with the
messy but efficient way, combining both input and output trees into
one. We need a way to know which node in this combined tree belongs to
the output. This is the purpose of this "recurse" flag.
"valid" bit can't be used for this because it's about data of the node
except the subdirs. When we invalidate a directory, we want to keep
cached data of the subdirs intact even though we don't really know
what subdir still exists (yet). Then we check worktree to see what
actual subdir remains on disk. Those will have 'recurse' bit set
again. If cached data for those are still valid, we may be able to
avoid computing exclude files for them. Those subdirs that are deleted
will have 'recurse' remained clear and their 'valid' bits do not
matter.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The main readdir loop in read_directory_recursive() is replaced with a
new one that checks if cached results of a directory is still valid.
If a file is added or removed from the index, the containing directory
is invalidated (but not its subdirs). If directory's mtime is changed,
the same happens. If a .gitignore is updated, the containing directory
and all subdirs are invalidated recursively. If dir_struct#flags or
other conditions change, the cache is ignored.
If a directory is invalidated, we opendir/readdir/closedir and run the
exclude machinery on that directory listing as usual. If untracked
cache is also enabled, we'll update the cache along the way. If a
directory is validated, we simply pull the untracked listing out from
the cache. The cache also records the list of direct subdirs that we
have to recurse in. Fully excluded directories are seen as "untracked
files".
In the best case when no dirs are invalidated, read_directory()
becomes a series of
stat(dir), open(.gitignore), fstat(), read(), close() and optionally
hash_sha1_file()
For comparison, standard read_directory() is a sequence of
opendir(), readdir(), open(.gitignore), fstat(), read(), close(), the
expensive last_exclude_matching() and closedir().
We already try not to open(.gitignore) if we know it does not exist,
so open/fstat/read/close sequence does not apply to every
directory. The sequence could be reduced further, as noted in
prep_exclude() in another patch. So in theory, the entire best-case
read_directory sequence could be reduced to a series of stat() and
nothing else.
This is not a silver bullet approach. When you compile a C file, for
example, the old .o file is removed and a new one with the same name
created, effectively invalidating the containing directory's cache
(but not its subdirectories). If your build process touches every
directory, this cache adds extra overhead for nothing, so it's a good
idea to separate generated files from tracked files.. Editors may use
the same strategy for saving files. And of course you're out of luck
running your repo on an unsupported filesystem and/or operating system.
Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This allows us to feed different info to read_directory_recursive()
based on untracked cache in the next patch.
Helped-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It's easy to see that if an existing .gitignore changes, its SHA-1
would be different and invalidate_gitignore() is called.
If .gitignore is removed, add_excludes() will treat it like an empty
.gitignore, which again should invalidate the cached directory data.
if .gitignore is added, lookup_untracked() already fills initial
.gitignore SHA-1 as "empty file", so again invalidate_gitignore() is
called.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Make sure the starting conditions and all global exclude files are
good to go. If not, either disable untracked cache completely, or wipe
out the cache and start fresh.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The idea is if we can capture all input and (non-rescursive) output of
read_directory_recursive(), and can verify later that all the input is
the same, then the second r_d_r() should produce the same output as in
the first run.
The requirement for this to work is stat info of a directory MUST
change if an entry is added to or removed from that directory (and
should not change often otherwise). If your OS and filesystem do not
meet this requirement, untracked cache is not for you. Most file
systems on *nix should be fine. On Windows, NTFS is fine while FAT may
not be [1] even though FAT on Linux seems to be fine.
The list of input of r_d_r() is in the big comment block in dir.h. In
short, the output of a directory (not counting subdirs) mainly depends
on stat info of the directory in question, all .gitignore leading to
it and the check_only flag when r_d_r() is called recursively. This
patch records all this info (and the output) as r_d_r() runs.
Two hash_sha1_file() are required for $GIT_DIR/info/exclude and
core.excludesfile unless their stat data matches. hash_sha1_file() is
only needed when .gitignore files in the worktree are modified,
otherwise their SHA-1 in index is used (see the previous patch).
We could store stat data for .gitignore files so we don't have to
rehash them if their content is different from index, but I think
.gitignore files are rarely modified, so not worth extra cache data
(and hashing penalty read-cache.c:verify_hdr(), as we will be storing
this as an index extension).
The implication is, if you change .gitignore, you better add it to the
index soon or you lose all the benefit of untracked cache because a
modified .gitignore invalidates all subdirs recursively. This is
especially bad for .gitignore at root.
This cached output is about untracked files only, not ignored files
because the number of tracked files is usually small, so small cache
overhead, while the number of ignored files could go really high
(e.g. *.o files mixing with source code).
[1] "Description of NTFS date and time stamps for files and folders"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/299648
Helped-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Helped-by: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
