Re: [egit-dev] Index and cache

[Thomas Hallgren <thomas@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Robin,
Thanks for the explanation. I'm curious since I'm now using the 
WorkDirCheckout class and it uses the GitIndex. Is that the correct way 
of doing a check-out or should I use some other approach?

- thomas


On 2009-12-14 23:19, Robin Rosenberg wrote:
> måndag 14 december 2009 23:01:16 skrev  Thomas Hallgren:
>    
> > When reading the Git glossary [1] I learn that the term 'dircache' is
> > way (in bold, and with 5 a's :-) ) behind and that I should look at
> > 'index'. Looking at the source for jgit, the situation is the opposite.
> > The GitIndex is deprecated in favor of the DirCache.
> >      
> GitIndex is the older class and DirCache is the newer one. DirCache
> also caches trees (dirs) which GitIndex does not do.
>
> -- robin
>