From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
Cc: Reid Price <reid.price@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Apparent bug in 'git stash push <subdir>' loses untracked files
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2017 10:33:21 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq4loqplou.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20171213230547.GC24597@hank
Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com> writes:
> Maybe the best solution would be to introduce 'git reset --hard --
> <pathspec>', or maybe someone who knows shell programming a little
> better than me has an idea?
>
> diff --git a/git-stash.sh b/git-stash.sh
> index 1114005ce2..01bf74015e 100755
> --- a/git-stash.sh
> +++ b/git-stash.sh
> @@ -322,10 +322,15 @@ push_stash () {
>
> if test $# != 0
> then
> + git ls-files -z >"$(git rev-parse --git-dir)"/stash-to-remove
> git reset -q -- "$@"
> git ls-files -z --modified -- "$@" |
> git checkout-index -z --force --stdin
> - git clean --force -q -d -- "$@"
> + while read -r -d '' to_delete
> + do
> + git clean --force -q -d -- "$to_delete"
> + done <"$(git rev-parse --git-dir)"/stash-to-remove
> + rm "$(git rev-parse --git-dir)"/stash-to-remove
> else
> git reset --hard -q
> fi
Hmph. I personally did not care (nor use) pathspec limited stash
creation, so I admit that I do not offhand know what this code
(before or after the above fix) is trying to do, even though it has
been in our tree for some time X-<. But judging from the fact that
the other side is a mere "git reset --hard" (for the whole tree), I
guess for each and every path in the index and/or in the HEAD that
match pathspec "$@", you are trying to
- remove it from the index if it is not in HEAD;
- add it to the index if it is not in the index but is in HEAD; or
- reset the index to the version in HEAD if it is in the index.
and then match the working tree version to that of the index?
I am not convinced that "git reset --hard -- <pathspec>" is a good
UI [*1*] but I agree that a low level facility that does these would
be quite helpful to implement the then-clause of the above.
But I suspect that you do not have to do shell "logic" nor low-level
plumbing update in this case. Would the attached work?
[Footnote]
*1* Primarily because "git reset [<tree-ish>] -- <pathspec>" that
already exists is not a good UI. The remainder of "git reset"
is about repointing the HEAD, and the various operation modes
are there to adjust the index and the working tree to the
updated HEAD depending on why the user wants to repoint the HEAD
in the first place. On the other hand, the pathspec limited
"reset" is all about affecting the index without moving the HEAD
and operation modes, if --hard is also taught not to reject
pathspec, will become "do we do index-only or do we do both?"
But updating the index and the working tree is what "git
checkout [<tree-ish>] -- <pathspec>" is for, and the "git reset
[<tree-ish>] -- <pathspec>" should have been "checkout --cached
[<tree-ish>] -- <pathspec>" (and the "reset --hard" equivalent
should be the "default" for checkout).
There is a small glitch in the current behaviour of "checkout --
<pathspec>" to complicate the above vision, but assuming that it
is surmountable, and if we were going to update the UI for
consistency along the above line, then I do not mind making "git
checkout" solely for "checking out paths" and adding a different
subcommannd to "checking out a branch to work on".
"reset.<commit>" is about resetting the HEAD and "reset
[<tree-ish>] -- <pathspec>" is about resetting the index, which
is the same duality some people complain about "git checkout"
that is both about checking out the paths and checking out a
branch to work on. Adding more mode(s) to "git reset" that
makes the command not about repointing the HEAD is piling more
on top.
The "small glitch" is that "checkout <tree-ish> -- <pathspec>"
is defined as an overlay operation---take the current index (and
the working tree), then for each (path, contents) in <tree-ish>
that match the <pathspec>, add it in if path does not exist in
the current index, or replace if path does. If we have a path
in the index that match <pathspec>, and that path does not exist
in <tree-ish>, "checkout <tree-ish> -- <pathspec>" does not
remove that path from the index.
So even the index+working tree mode (which is how "reset --hard"
would want to work) may need to take a new option. Between two
modes of "checkout <tree-ish> -- <pathspec>" that allows
deletion, "--index" would be the one that works on both the
index and the working tree, and "--cached" would be the one that
works only on the index (this follows gitcli convention that is
used by existing commands), and the current "overlay" mode will
stay to be the default, at least until we know that the "--index"
mode should become the default and decide to transition.
---
git-stash.sh | 5 ++---
t/t3903-stash.sh | 16 ++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/git-stash.sh b/git-stash.sh
index 1114005ce2..a979bfb665 100755
--- a/git-stash.sh
+++ b/git-stash.sh
@@ -322,10 +322,9 @@ push_stash () {
if test $# != 0
then
- git reset -q -- "$@"
- git ls-files -z --modified -- "$@" |
+ git ls-files -z -- "$@" |
git checkout-index -z --force --stdin
- git clean --force -q -d -- "$@"
+ git diff-index -p HEAD -- "$@" | git apply --index -R
else
git reset --hard -q
fi
diff --git a/t/t3903-stash.sh b/t/t3903-stash.sh
index 39c7f2ebd7..6952a031b2 100755
--- a/t/t3903-stash.sh
+++ b/t/t3903-stash.sh
@@ -1064,4 +1064,20 @@ test_expect_success 'stash -k -- <pathspec> leaves unstaged files intact' '
test foo,bar = $(cat foo),$(cat bar)
'
+test_expect_success 'stash -- <subdir> leaves untracked files in subdir intact' '
+ git reset &&
+ >subdir/untracked &&
+ >subdir/tracked1 &&
+ >subdir/tracked2 &&
+ git add subdir/tracked* &&
+ git stash -- subdir/ &&
+ test_path_is_missing subdir/tracked1 &&
+ test_path_is_missing subdir/tracked2 &&
+ test_path_is_file subdir/untracked &&
+ git stash pop &&
+ test_path_is_file subdir/tracked1 &&
+ test_path_is_file subdir/tracked2 &&
+ test_path_is_file subdir/untracked
+'
+
test_done
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-16 18:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-13 17:32 Apparent bug in 'git stash push <subdir>' loses untracked files Reid Price
2017-12-13 21:20 ` Igor Djordjevic
2017-12-13 23:14 ` Thomas Gummerer
2017-12-13 23:46 ` Igor Djordjevic
2017-12-13 23:05 ` Thomas Gummerer
2017-12-16 18:33 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2017-12-17 18:05 ` Thomas Gummerer
2017-12-18 18:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-01-05 20:03 ` Thomas Gummerer
2018-01-06 0:24 ` [PATCH v2] stash: don't delete untracked files that match pathspec Thomas Gummerer
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