Re: What's cooking in git.git (Dec 2023, #01; Sat, 9)

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Jeff Hostetler <git@jeffhostetler.com> writes:

>> * jc/diff-cached-fsmonitor-fix (2023-09-15) 3 commits
>> * jc/fake-lstat (2023-09-15) 1 commit
>
> I think these look good.  And yes, it is better to insure that the
> stat struct is always well-defined rather than sometimes uninitialized.

Thanks.

> FWIW, in
> f954c7b8ff3 (fsmonitor: never set CE_FSMONITOR_VALID on submodules,
> 2022-05-26)
> we try to never set the CE_FSMONITOR_VALID bit on submodules (because
> status on a submodule is much more than just an lstat check on the
> submodule root directory and we always should recursively ask Git to
> compute the submodule's status).
>
> I haven't had time to investigate, but I wonder if the original
> complaint on `diff-lib` was due to another code path that allowed
> the CE_FSMONITOR_VALID bit to get set on a submodule entry.