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authorLibravatar Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>2022-01-14 15:59:40 +0000
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2022-01-14 14:42:20 -0800
commit26b5d6b0e56898a0284d0f45dd5a69f59257a6ab (patch)
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parentt1011: add testcase demonstrating accidental loss of user modifications (diff)
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unpack-trees: fix accidental loss of user changes
For sparse-checkouts, we don't want unpack-trees to error out on files that are missing from the worktree, so there has traditionally been logic to make it skip the verify_uptodate() check for these. Unfortunately, it was skipping the verify_uptodate() check for files that were expected to *become* SKIP_WORKTREE. For files that were not already SKIP_WORKTREE, that can cause us to later delete the file in apply_sparse_checkout(). Only skip the check for files that were already SKIP_WORKTREE as well to avoid lightly discarding important changes users may have made to files. Note 1: unpack-trees.c is already a bit complex, and the logic around CE_SKIP_WORKTREE and CE_NEW_SKIP_WORKTREE in that file are no exception. I also tried just replacing CE_NEW_SKIP_WORKTREE with CE_SKIP_WORKTREE in the verify_uptodate() check instead of checking for both flags, and found that it also fixed this bug and passed all the tests. I also attempted to devise a few testcases that might trip either variant of my fix and was unable to find any problems. It may be that just checking CE_SKIP_WORKTREE is a better fix, but I'm not sure. I thought it was a bit safer to strictly reduce the number of cases where we skip the up-to-date check rather than just toggling which kind of cases skip it, and thus went with the current variant of the fix. Note 2: I also wondered if verify_absent() might have a similar bug, but despite my attempts to try to devise a testcase that would trigger such a thing, I couldn't find any problematic testcases. Thus, this patch makes no attempt to apply similar changes to verify_absent() and verify_absent_if_directory(). Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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