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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Varun Naik <vcnaik94@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, gitster@pobox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] checkout.c: unstage empty deleted ita files
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2019 17:51:48 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190801215148.GA30137@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190801160756.12601-1-vcnaik94@gmail.com>

On Thu, Aug 01, 2019 at 09:07:56AM -0700, Varun Naik wrote:

> It is possible to delete a committed file from the index and then add it
> as intent-to-add. After `git checkout HEAD`, the file should be
> identical in the index and HEAD. The command already works correctly if
> the file has contents in HEAD. This patch provides the desired behavior
> even when the file is empty in HEAD.
> 
> `git checkout HEAD` calls tree.c:read_tree_1(), with fn pointing to
> checkout.c:update_some(). update_some() creates a new cache entry but
> discards it when its mode and oid match those of the old entry. A cache
> entry for an ita file and a cache entry for an empty file have the same
> oid. Therefore, an empty deleted ita file previously passed both of
> these checks, and the new entry was discarded, so the file remained
> unchanged in the index. After this fix, if the file is marked as ita in
> the cache, then we avoid discarding the new entry and add the new entry
> to the cache instead.
> 
> This change should not affect newly added ita files. For those, inside
> tree.c:read_tree_1(), tree_entry_interesting() returns
> entry_not_interesting, so fn is never called.
> 
> Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
> Signed-off-by: Varun Naik <vcnaik94@gmail.com>
> ---
> This patch fixes and tests only "checkout", because "restore" has not
> reached maint yet. A second patch on the merge of this patch into master
> with a test case for "restore" is coming.

Thanks, this version looks good to me!

-Peff

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-08-01 21:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-26  4:56 [PATCH] checkout.c: unstage empty deleted ita files Varun Naik
2019-07-26  5:01 ` Varun Naik
2019-07-26  8:57 ` Jeff King
2019-07-29  6:54   ` Varun Naik
2019-07-29  9:11     ` Jeff King
2019-08-01 16:07 ` [PATCH v2] " Varun Naik
2019-08-01 17:34   ` Junio C Hamano
2019-08-01 21:51   ` Jeff King [this message]
2019-08-01 16:09 ` [PATCH] restore: add test for " Varun Naik
2019-08-02 16:16   ` Junio C Hamano
2019-08-02 16:28 ` [PATCH v3] checkout.c: unstage empty " Varun Naik

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