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Diffstat (limited to 'fsmonitor.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | fsmonitor.h | 11 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fsmonitor.h b/fsmonitor.h index 3f41f65369..edf7ce5203 100644 --- a/fsmonitor.h +++ b/fsmonitor.h @@ -68,6 +68,15 @@ static inline int is_fsmonitor_refreshed(const struct index_state *istate) * Set the given cache entries CE_FSMONITOR_VALID bit. This should be * called any time the cache entry has been updated to reflect the * current state of the file on disk. + * + * However, never mark submodules as valid. When commands like "git + * status" run they might need to recurse into the submodule (using a + * child process) to get a summary of the submodule state. We don't + * have (and don't want to create) the facility to translate every + * FS event that we receive and that happens to be deep inside of a + * submodule back to the submodule root, so we cannot correctly keep + * track of this bit on the gitlink directory. Therefore, we never + * set it on submodules. */ static inline void mark_fsmonitor_valid(struct index_state *istate, struct cache_entry *ce) { @@ -75,6 +84,8 @@ static inline void mark_fsmonitor_valid(struct index_state *istate, struct cache if (fsm_mode > FSMONITOR_MODE_DISABLED && !(ce->ce_flags & CE_FSMONITOR_VALID)) { + if (S_ISGITLINK(ce->ce_mode)) + return; istate->cache_changed = 1; ce->ce_flags |= CE_FSMONITOR_VALID; trace_printf_key(&trace_fsmonitor, "mark_fsmonitor_clean '%s'", ce->name); |