diff/status: refactor opportunistic index update

When we had to refresh the index internally before running diff or status,
we opportunistically updated the $GIT_INDEX_FILE so that later invocation
of git can use the lstat(2) we already did in this invocation.

Make them share a helper function to do so.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/read-cache.c b/read-cache.c
index 1f42473e8..7a0421cba 100644
--- a/read-cache.c
+++ b/read-cache.c
@@ -1545,6 +1545,18 @@ static int ce_write_entry(git_SHA_CTX *c, int fd, struct cache_entry *ce)
 	return result;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Opportunisticly update the index but do not complain if we can't
+ */
+void update_index_if_able(struct index_state *istate, struct lock_file *lockfile)
+{
+	if (istate->cache_changed &&
+	    !write_index(istate, lockfile->fd))
+		commit_locked_index(lockfile);
+	else
+		rollback_lock_file(lockfile);
+}
+
 int write_index(struct index_state *istate, int newfd)
 {
 	git_SHA_CTX c;