From 3f13877595500bd54ee370167bc868f3c1eee5b7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Brandon Williams Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2017 12:05:18 -0700 Subject: repo_read_index: don't discard the index Have 'repo_read_index()' behave more like the other read_index family of functions and don't discard the index if it has already been populated and instead rely on the quick return of read_index_from which has: /* istate->initialized covers both .git/index and .git/sharedindex.xxx */ if (istate->initialized) return istate->cache_nr; Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- repository.h | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) (limited to 'repository.h') diff --git a/repository.h b/repository.h index 417787f3e..7f5e24a0a 100644 --- a/repository.h +++ b/repository.h @@ -92,6 +92,14 @@ extern int repo_submodule_init(struct repository *submodule, const char *path); extern void repo_clear(struct repository *repo); +/* + * Populates the repository's index from its index_file, an index struct will + * be allocated if needed. + * + * Return the number of index entries in the populated index or a value less + * than zero if an error occured. If the repository's index has already been + * populated then the number of entries will simply be returned. + */ extern int repo_read_index(struct repository *repo); #endif /* REPOSITORY_H */ -- cgit v1.2.1