Re: [PATCH v2 01/22] dir.c: optionally compute sha-1 of a .gitignore file

On Sat, 2014-11-08 at 16:39 +0700, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy wrote: > + * If "ss" is not NULL, compute SHA-1 of the exclude file and fill > + * stat data from disk (only valid if add_excludes returns zero). If > + * ss_valid is non-zero, "ss" must contain good value as input. ss and ss_valid should be

[PATCH v2 01/22] dir.c: optionally compute sha-1 of a .gitignore file

This is not used anywhere yet. But the goal is to compare quickly if a .gitignore file has changed when we have the SHA-1 of both old (cached somewhere) and new (from index or a tree) versions. Helped-by: Junio C Hamano Helped-by: Torsten Bögershausen Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy --- di