Hi,

On Sat, 27 Jan 2018, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

> I just got around to testing this since it landed, for context some
> previous poking of mine in [1].
> 
> Issues / stuff I've noticed:
> 
> 1) We end up invalidating the untracked cache because stuff in .git/
> changed. For example:
> 
>     01:09:24.975524 fsmonitor.c:173         fsmonitor process '.git/hooks/fsmonitor-watchman' returned success
>     01:09:24.975548 fsmonitor.c:138         fsmonitor_refresh_callback '.git'
>     01:09:24.975556 fsmonitor.c:138         fsmonitor_refresh_callback '.git/config'
>     01:09:24.975568 fsmonitor.c:138         fsmonitor_refresh_callback '.git/index'
>     01:09:25.122726 fsmonitor.c:91          write fsmonitor extension successful
> 
> Am I missing something or should we do something like:
> 
>     diff --git a/fsmonitor.c b/fsmonitor.c
>     index 0af7c4edba..5067b89bda 100644
>     --- a/fsmonitor.c
>     +++ b/fsmonitor.c
>     @@ -118,7 +118,12 @@ static int query_fsmonitor(int version, uint64_t last_update, struct strbuf *que
> 
>      static void fsmonitor_refresh_callback(struct index_state *istate, const char *name)
>      {
>     -       int pos = index_name_pos(istate, name, strlen(name));
>     +       int pos;
>     +
>     +       if (!strcmp(name, ".git") || starts_with(name, ".git/"))
>     +               return;
>     +
>     +       pos = index_name_pos(istate, name, strlen(name));

I would much rather have the fsmonitor hook already exclude those.

If you *must* add these comparisons, you have to use fspathcmp() and
fspathncmp() instead (because case-insensitivity).

Ciao,
Dscho