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Revision 3ba2e8653c88d220b0b22f35260477bb0afa7d7b authored by Johannes Sixt on 16 March 2011, 08:18:49 UTC, committed by Junio C Hamano on 17 March 2011, 21:54:11 UTC 
stash: copy the index using --index-output instead of cp -p
 
'git stash create' must operate with a temporary index. For this purpose,
it used 'cp -p' to create a copy. -p is needed to preserve the timestamp
of the index file. Now Jakob Pfender reported a certain combination of
a Linux NFS client, OpenBSD NFS server, and cp implementation where this
operation failed.

Luckily, the first operation in git-stash after copying the index is to
call 'git read-tree'. Therefore, use --index-output instead of 'cp -p'
to write the copy of the index.

--index-output requires that the specified file is on the same volume as
the source index, so that the lock file can be rename()d. For this reason,
the name of the temporary index is constructed in a way different from the
other temporary files. The code path of 'stash -p' also needs a temporary
index, but we do not use the new name because it does not depend on the
same precondition as --index-output.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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blob.h 
#ifndef BLOB_H
#define BLOB_H

#include "object.h"

extern const char *blob_type;

struct blob {
	struct object object;
};

struct blob *lookup_blob(const unsigned char *sha1);

int parse_blob_buffer(struct blob *item, void *buffer, unsigned long size);

/**
 * Blobs do not contain references to other objects and do not have
 * structured data that needs parsing. However, code may use the
 * "parsed" bit in the struct object for a blob to determine whether
 * its content has been found to actually be available, so
 * parse_blob_buffer() is used (by object.c) to flag that the object
 * has been read successfully from the database.
 **/

#endif /* BLOB_H */
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