repository: removed redundant prepareCache method from Repository

* remove the prepareCache method from the Repository
* changed the signature of the SetIndex function to no longer return an error

internal/checker/checker.go

@@ -146,11 +146,7 @@ func (c *Checker) LoadIndex(ctx context.Context, p *progress.Counter) (hints []e
 		return hints, append(errs, err)
 	}
 
-	err = c.repo.SetIndex(c.masterIndex)
+	c.repo.SetIndex(c.masterIndex)
-	if err != nil {
-		debug.Log("SetIndex returned error: %v", err)
-		errs = append(errs, err)
-	}
 
 	// compute pack size using index entries
 	c.packs, err = pack.Size(ctx, c.repo, false)

internal/repository/repair_index.go

@@ -52,10 +52,8 @@ func RepairIndex(ctx context.Context, repo *Repository, opts RepairIndexOptions,
 			return err
 		}
 
-		err = repo.SetIndex(mi)
+		repo.SetIndex(mi)
-		if err != nil {
+
-			return err
-		}
 		packSizeFromIndex, err = pack.Size(ctx, repo, false)
 		if err != nil {
 			return err

internal/repository/repository.go

@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"io"
 	"math"
-	"os"
 	"runtime"
 	"sort"
 	"sync"
@@ -586,9 +585,8 @@ func (r *Repository) ListPacksFromIndex(ctx context.Context, packs restic.IDSet)
 }
 
 // SetIndex instructs the repository to use the given index.
-func (r *Repository) SetIndex(i restic.MasterIndex) error {
+func (r *Repository) SetIndex(i restic.MasterIndex) {
 	r.idx = i.(*index.MasterIndex)
-	return r.prepareCache()
 }
 
 func (r *Repository) clearIndex() {
@@ -628,12 +626,8 @@ func (r *Repository) LoadIndex(ctx context.Context, p *progress.Counter) error {
 			return errors.New("index uses feature not supported by repository version 1")
 		}
 	}
-	if ctx.Err() != nil {
-		return ctx.Err()
-	}
 
-	// remove index files from the cache which have been removed in the repo
+	return ctx.Err()
-	return r.prepareCache()
 }
 
 // createIndexFromPacks creates a new index by reading all given pack files (with sizes).
@@ -699,33 +693,6 @@ func (r *Repository) createIndexFromPacks(ctx context.Context, packsize map[rest
 	return invalid, nil
 }
 
-// prepareCache initializes the local cache. indexIDs is the list of IDs of
-// index files still present in the repo.
-func (r *Repository) prepareCache() error {
-	if r.Cache == nil {
-		return nil
-	}
-
-	indexIDs := r.idx.IDs()
-	debug.Log("prepare cache with %d index files", len(indexIDs))
-
-	// clear old index files
-	err := r.Cache.Clear(restic.IndexFile, indexIDs)
-	if err != nil {
-		fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "error clearing index files in cache: %v\n", err)
-	}
-
-	packs := r.idx.Packs(restic.NewIDSet())
-
-	// clear old packs
-	err = r.Cache.Clear(restic.PackFile, packs)
-	if err != nil {
-		fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "error clearing pack files in cache: %v\n", err)
-	}
-
-	return nil
-}
-
 // SearchKey finds a key with the supplied password, afterwards the config is
 // read and parsed. It tries at most maxKeys key files in the repo.
 func (r *Repository) SearchKey(ctx context.Context, password string, maxKeys int, keyHint string) error {

internal/restic/repository.go

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ type Repository interface {
 	Key() *crypto.Key
 
 	LoadIndex(ctx context.Context, p *progress.Counter) error
-	SetIndex(mi MasterIndex) error
+	SetIndex(mi MasterIndex)
 
 	LookupBlob(t BlobType, id ID) []PackedBlob
 	LookupBlobSize(t BlobType, id ID) (size uint, exists bool)