+ int match = -1;
+ int fd = open(ce->name, O_RDONLY);
+
+ if (fd >= 0) {
+ void *buffer;
+ unsigned long size;
+ char type[20];
+
+ buffer = read_sha1_file(ce->sha1, type, &size);
+ if (buffer) {
+ if (size == expected_size && !strcmp(type, "blob"))
+ match = match_data(fd, buffer, size);
+ free(buffer);
+ }
+ close(fd);
+ }
+ return match;
+}
+
+static int compare_link(struct cache_entry *ce, unsigned long expected_size)
+{
+ int match = -1;
+ char *target;
+ void *buffer;
+ unsigned long size;
+ char type[10];
+ int len;
+
+ target = xmalloc(expected_size);
+ len = readlink(ce->name, target, expected_size);
+ if (len != expected_size) {
+ free(target);
+ return -1;
+ }
+ buffer = read_sha1_file(ce->sha1, type, &size);
+ if (!buffer) {
+ free(target);
+ return -1;
+ }
+ if (size == expected_size)
+ match = memcmp(buffer, target, size);
+ free(buffer);
+ free(target);
+ return match;
+}
+
+/*
+ * "refresh" does not calculate a new sha1 file or bring the
+ * cache up-to-date for mode/content changes. But what it
+ * _does_ do is to "re-match" the stat information of a file
+ * with the cache, so that you can refresh the cache for a
+ * file that hasn't been changed but where the stat entry is
+ * out of date.
+ *
+ * For example, you'd want to do this after doing a "git-read-tree",
+ * to link up the stat cache details with the proper files.
+ */
+static struct cache_entry *refresh_entry(struct cache_entry *ce)
+{
+ struct stat st;
+ struct cache_entry *updated;
+ int changed, size;
+
+ if (lstat(ce->name, &st) < 0)
+ return ERR_PTR(-errno);
+
+ changed = ce_match_stat(ce, &st);
+ if (!changed)
+ return ce;
+