Gábor Szeder authored Oct 11, 2018 and Junio C Hamano committed Oct 12, 2018

When unpack_trees() constructs a new index, it copies cache entries
from the original index [1].  prepare_to_write_split_index() has to
deal with this, and it has a dedicated code path for copied entries
that are present in the shared index, where it compares the cached
data in the corresponding copied and original entries.  If the cached
data matches, then they are considered the same; if it differs, then
the copied entry will be marked for inclusion as a replacement entry
in the just about to be written split index by setting the
CE_UPDATE_IN_BASE flag.

However, a cache entry already has its CE_UPDATE_IN_BASE flag set upon
reading the split index, if the entry already has a replacement entry
there, or upon refreshing the cached stat data, if the corresponding
file was modified.  The state of this flag is then preserved when
unpack_trees() copies a cache entry from the shared index.

So modify prepare_to_write_split_index() to check the copied cache
entries' CE_UPDATE_IN_BASE flag first, and skip the thorough
comparison of cached data if the flag is already set.  Those couple of
lines comparing the cached data would then have too many levels of
indentation, so extract them into a helper function.

Note that comparing the cached data in copied and original entries in
the shared index might actually be entirely unnecessary.  In theory
all code paths refreshing the cached stat data of an entry in the
shared index should set the CE_UPDATE_IN_BASE flag in that entry, and
unpack_trees() should preserve this flag when copying cache entries.
This means that the cached data is only ever changed if the
CE_UPDATE_IN_BASE flag is set as well.  Our test suite seems to
confirm this: instrumenting the conditions in question and running the
test suite repeatedly with 'GIT_TEST_SPLIT_INDEX=yes' showed that the
cached data in a copied entry differs from the data in the shared
entry only if its CE_UPDATE_IN_BASE flag is indeed set.

In practice, however, our test suite doesn't have 100% coverage,
GIT_TEST_SPLIT_INDEX is inherently random, and I certainly can't claim
to possess complete understanding of what goes on in unpack_trees()...
Therefore I kept the comparison of the cached data when
CE_UPDATE_IN_BASE is not set, just in case that an unnoticed or future
code path were to accidentally miss setting this flag upon refreshing
the cached stat data or unpack_trees() were to drop this flag while
copying a cache entry.

[1] Note that when unpack_trees() constructs the new index and decides
    that a cache entry should now refer to different content than what
    was recorded in the original index (e.g. 'git read-tree -m
    HEAD^'), then that can't really be considered a copy of the
    original, but rather the creation of a new entry.  Notably and
    pertinent to the split index feature, such a new entry doesn't
    have a reference to the original's shared index entry anymore,
    i.e. its 'index' field is set to 0.  Consequently, such an entry
    is treated by prepare_to_write_split_index() as an entry not
    present in the shared index and it will be added to the new split
    index, while the original entry will be marked as deleted, and
    neither the above discussion nor the changes in this patch apply
    to them.

Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>