From: Varun Naik <vcnaik94@gmail.com>
To: Varun Naik <vcnaik94@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
pclouds@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] diff-lib.c: handle empty deleted ita files
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 09:26:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK_rgsGYa6LoGDHz=sGDXY26Lvg3dxV-poB5FQHf5G6BuOKVPg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190801161558.12838-1-vcnaik94@gmail.com>
On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 9:16 AM Varun Naik <vcnaik94@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> It is possible to delete a committed file from the index and then add it
> as intent-to-add. Certain forms of `git diff` should show the file.
> After `git reset HEAD`, the file should be identical in the index and
> HEAD. The commands already work correctly if the file has contents in
> HEAD. This patch provides the desired behavior even when the file is
> empty in HEAD.
>
> The affected "diff" commands and the "reset" command call
> diff-lib.c:do_oneway_diff() with a cache entry in the index and a cache
> entry in HEAD. An ita file is represented in the index by a cache entry
> with the same hash as an empty file. For a nonempty deleted ita file,
> do_oneway_diff() calls show_modified(), which detects a diff between the
> cache entry in the index and the cache entry in HEAD and therefore deems
> the file "modified". However, for an empty deleted ita file,
> do_oneway_diff() previously detected no such diff between the two cache
> entries and therefore deemed the file "not modified". After this fix,
> for any deleted ita file, do_oneway_diff() calls diff_index_show_file()
> and deems the file "deleted".
>
> `git diff-index --cached HEAD` prints a row of output for both a
> "modified" and a "deleted" file, although the output differs slightly.
> `git reset HEAD` treats a "modified" and a "deleted" file similarly,
> resurrecting the file in the index from HEAD.
>
> This change should not affect newly added ita files. For those, the
> "tree" cache entry is NULL, so the changed code is not executed.
>
> Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
> Signed-off-by: Varun Naik <vcnaik94@gmail.com>
> ---
Bumping this email, since I noticed v2 is still in pu.
Varun
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-15 16:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-12 15:02 [PATCH] reset: unstage empty deleted ita files Varun Naik
2019-07-26 4:48 ` [PATCH v2] " Varun Naik
2019-07-26 18:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-07-29 6:52 ` Varun Naik
2019-07-29 16:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-08-01 16:15 ` [PATCH v3] diff-lib.c: handle " Varun Naik
2019-08-15 16:26 ` Varun Naik [this message]
2019-08-15 19:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-08-19 15:42 ` Varun Naik
2019-08-19 20:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-02-14 17:12 ` Varun Naik
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