[PATCH] update-index: Don't copy memory around

Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller sbel...@google.com --- On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 8:40 PM, Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com wrote: Stefan Beller sbel...@google.com writes: `old` is not used outside the loop and would get lost once we reach the goto. Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller sbel...@google.com

Re: [PATCH] update-index: Don't copy memory around

Stefan Beller sbel...@google.com writes: ... though I do not understand why. This passes the test suite, so I wonder if this patch would be a subtle bug now. I recall the last time I traced the code I noticed that the ce can get passed to a codepath that causes its removal from