Re: [PATCH] merge-recursive: do not look at the index during recursive merge

[Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>]

Hi,

On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 11:19 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

>     > I haven't come up with an addition to the test suite, but I suspect
>     > this change is conceptually wrong.  What if a call to this function
>     > is made during a recursive, inner merge?

Eek, good catch.

>  merge-recursive.c          |  2 +-
>  t/t3030-merge-recursive.sh | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 51 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/merge-recursive.c b/merge-recursive.c
> index 780f81a8bd..0fc580d8ca 100644
> --- a/merge-recursive.c
> +++ b/merge-recursive.c
> @@ -1954,7 +1954,7 @@ int merge_trees(struct merge_options *o,
>         if (oid_eq(&common->object.oid, &merge->object.oid)) {
>                 struct strbuf sb = STRBUF_INIT;
>
> -               if (index_has_changes(&sb)) {
> +               if (!o->call_depth && index_has_changes(&sb)) {
>                         err(o, _("Dirty index: cannot merge (dirty: %s)"),
>                             sb.buf);
>                         return 0;

Yep, looks good to me; sorry for overlooking this.

Elijah