Thomas Gummerer <[email protected]> writes:
> Add a force-rewrite option to update-index, which allows the user
> to rewrite the index, even if there are no changes. This can be used
> to do performance tests of both the reader and the writer.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gummerer <[email protected]>
> ---
> builtin/update-index.c | 5 ++++-
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
I do not think this is wrong per-se, but is a new command that needs
to be documented? If it is only for benchmarking and debugging, it
might be sufficient to make "--index-version <n>" always rewrite the
index.
> diff --git a/builtin/update-index.c b/builtin/update-index.c
> index 4ce341c..7fedc8f 100644
> --- a/builtin/update-index.c
> +++ b/builtin/update-index.c
> @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ static int allow_remove;
> static int allow_replace;
> static int info_only;
> static int force_remove;
> +static int force_rewrite;
> static int verbose;
> static int mark_valid_only;
> static int mark_skip_worktree_only;
> @@ -728,6 +729,8 @@ int cmd_update_index(int argc, const char **argv, const
> char *prefix)
> OPT_BIT(0, "unmerged", &refresh_args.flags,
> "refresh even if index contains unmerged entries",
> REFRESH_UNMERGED),
> + OPT_SET_INT(0, "force-rewrite", &force_rewrite,
> + "force a index rewrite even if there is no change", 1),
> {OPTION_CALLBACK, 0, "refresh", &refresh_args, NULL,
> "refresh stat information",
> PARSE_OPT_NOARG | PARSE_OPT_NONEG,
> @@ -886,7 +889,7 @@ int cmd_update_index(int argc, const char **argv, const
> char *prefix)
> strbuf_release(&buf);
> }
>
> - if (active_cache_changed) {
> + if (active_cache_changed || force_rewrite) {
> if (newfd < 0) {
> if (refresh_args.flags & REFRESH_QUIET)
> exit(128);
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