Re: Some advanced index playing

[Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>]

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

> I think that is actually a misfeature. 
>
> This _should_ just work. It's the easy and logical way to do it, and it's 
> the one that matches all the other behaviours of "git commit" these days.
> ...
> So anyway, I would suggest that we just get rid of that partial commit 
> "safety check" in "git commit" for now. It still makes sense for when 
> you're in the middle of a _merge_, but the "verify that index matches" is 
> not worth it.

The codepath has a big "don't do this during a merge" check in
front.  I think this is a safe thing to do, so let's do this.

diff --git a/git-commit.sh b/git-commit.sh
index 81c3a0c..c829791 100755
--- a/git-commit.sh
+++ b/git-commit.sh
@@ -350,19 +350,9 @@ t,)
 			refuse_partial "Cannot do a partial commit during a merge."
 		fi
 		TMP_INDEX="$GIT_DIR/tmp-index$$"
-		if test -z "$initial_commit"
-		then
-			# make sure index is clean at the specified paths, or
-			# they are additions.
-			dirty_in_index=`git-diff-index --cached --name-status \
-				--diff-filter=DMTU HEAD -- "$@"`
-			test -z "$dirty_in_index" ||
-			refuse_partial "Different in index and the last commit:
-$dirty_in_index"
-		fi
 		commit_only=`git-ls-files --error-unmatch -- "$@"` || exit
 
-		# Build the temporary index and update the real index
+		# Build a temporary index and update the real index
 		# the same way.
 		if test -z "$initial_commit"
 		then