diff/status: refactor opportunistic index update
When we had to refresh the index internally before running diff or status,
we opportunistically updated the $GIT_INDEX_FILE so that later invocation
of git can use the lstat(2) we already did in this invocation.
Make them share a helper function to do so.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
diff --git a/builtin/diff.c b/builtin/diff.c
index a43d326..bab4bd9 100644
--- a/builtin/diff.c
+++ b/builtin/diff.c
@@ -197,12 +197,7 @@
discard_cache();
read_cache();
refresh_cache(REFRESH_QUIET|REFRESH_UNMERGED);
-
- if (active_cache_changed &&
- !write_cache(fd, active_cache, active_nr))
- commit_locked_index(lock_file);
-
- rollback_lock_file(lock_file);
+ update_index_if_able(&the_index, lock_file);
}
static int builtin_diff_files(struct rev_info *revs, int argc, const char **argv)
