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read-tree: teach 1 and 2 way merges about cache-tree.
This teaches one-way and two-way "read-tree -m" (and its special form, "read-tree --reset" as well) not to discard cache-tree but invalidate only the changed parts of the tree. When switching between related branches, this helps the eventual commit (i.e. write-tree) by keeping cache-tree valid as much as possible. This does not prime cache-tree yet, but we ought to be able to do that for no-merge (i.e. reading from a tree object) case and, and also perhaps 1 way merge case. With this patch applied, switching between the tip of Linux 2.6 kernel tree and a branch that touches one path (fs/ext3/Makefile) from it invalidates only 3 paths out of 1201 cache-tree entries in the index, and subsequent write-tree takes about a half as much time as before. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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