Re: [PATCH] Perform minimal stat comparison when some stat fields are not set

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com> writes:

> At least JGit does sets uid, gid, ctime, ino and dev fields to zero
> on update. To Git this looks like the stat data does not match and
> a full file compare will be forced even it size and mtime match. This
> is in practice unnecessary. Sense JGit's presence by checking if ino
> and dev is zero.
>
> Signed-off-by: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>
> ---
>  read-cache.c | 21 +++++++++++++--------
>  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/read-cache.c b/read-cache.c
> index fda78bc..6f13a22 100644
> --- a/read-cache.c
> +++ b/read-cache.c
> @@ -197,21 +197,26 @@ static int ce_match_stat_basic(struct cache_entry *ce, struct stat *st)
>  	}
>  	if (ce->ce_mtime.sec != (unsigned int)st->st_mtime)
>  		changed |= MTIME_CHANGED;
> -	if (trust_ctime && ce->ce_ctime.sec != (unsigned int)st->st_ctime)
> +
> +	int minimal_stat = (ce->ce_ino == 0 && ce->ce_dev == 0);

decl-after-stmt.

Besides, is it sane to do this unconditionally to affect people who
do not use JGit?