20a16eb (unpack_trees(): fix diff-index regression., 2008-03-10) adjusted
diff-index to the new world order since
34110cd (Make 'unpack_trees()'
have a separate source and destination index, 2008-03-06). Callbacks are
expected to return anything non-negative as "success", and instead of
reporting how many index entries they have processed, they are expected to
advance o->pos themselves. The code did so, but a stale comment was left
behind.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* For diffing, the index is more important, and we only have a
* single tree.
*
- * We're supposed to return how many index entries we want to skip.
+ * We're supposed to advance o->pos to skip what we have already processed.
*
* This wrapper makes it all more readable, and takes care of all
* the fairly complex unpack_trees() semantic requirements, including