Re: [PATCH 2/4] reachable.c: mark reachable objects in index from all worktrees

[Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 1:13 AM, Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 6:45 AM, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Current mark_reachable_objects() only marks objects from index from
>> _current_ worktree as reachable instead of all worktrees. Because this
>> function is used for pruning, there is a chance that objects referenced
>> by other worktrees may be deleted. Fix that.
>>
>> Small behavior change in "one worktree" case, the index is read again
>> from file. In the current implementation, if the_index is already
>> loaded, the index file will not be read from file again. This adds some
>> more cost to this operation, hopefully insignificant because
>> reachability test is usually very expensive already.
>
> Could this extra index read be avoided by taking advantage of 'struct
> worktree::is_current'[1] and passing the already-loaded index to
> add_index_objects_to_pending() if true?
>
> Or, am I misunderstanding the issue?
>
> [1]: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/292194

Hah! I broke my worktree changes into many pieces and lost track of
them. I thought that one was still in some unsent series. Will use it.
-- 
Duy