reset: preserve skip-worktree bit in mixed reset

Change `update_index_from_diff` to set `skip-worktree` when applicable for
new index entries. When `git reset --mixed <tree-ish>` is run, entries in
the index with differences between the pre-reset HEAD and reset <tree-ish>
are identified and handled with `update_index_from_diff`. For each file, a
new cache entry in inserted into the index, created from the <tree-ish> side
of the reset (without changing the working tree). However, the newly-created
entry must have `skip-worktree` explicitly set in either of the following
scenarios:

1. the file is in the current index and has `skip-worktree` set
2. the file is not in the current index but is outside of a defined sparse
   checkout definition

Not setting the `skip-worktree` bit leads to likely-undesirable results for
a user. It causes `skip-worktree` settings to disappear on the
"diff"-containing files (but *only* the diff-containing files), leading to
those files now showing modifications in `git status`. For example, when
running `git reset --mixed` in a sparse checkout, some file entries outside
of sparse checkout could show up as deleted, despite the user never deleting
anything (and not wanting them on-disk anyway).

Additionally, add a test to `t7102` to ensure `skip-worktree` is preserved
in a basic `git reset --mixed` scenario and update a failure-documenting
test from 19a0acc (t1092: test interesting sparse-checkout scenarios,
2021-01-23) with new expected behavior.

Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/builtin/reset.c b/builtin/reset.c
index d3695ce43c..e441b6601b 100644
--- a/builtin/reset.c
+++ b/builtin/reset.c
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 #include "cache-tree.h"
 #include "submodule.h"
 #include "submodule-config.h"
+#include "dir.h"
 
 #define REFRESH_INDEX_DELAY_WARNING_IN_MS (2 * 1000)
 
@@ -130,6 +131,7 @@ static void update_index_from_diff(struct diff_queue_struct *q,
 	int intent_to_add = *(int *)data;
 
 	for (i = 0; i < q->nr; i++) {
+		int pos;
 		struct diff_filespec *one = q->queue[i]->one;
 		int is_in_reset_tree = one->mode && !is_null_oid(&one->oid);
 		struct cache_entry *ce;
@@ -141,6 +143,18 @@ static void update_index_from_diff(struct diff_queue_struct *q,
 
 		ce = make_cache_entry(&the_index, one->mode, &one->oid, one->path,
 				      0, 0);
+
+		/*
+		 * If the file 1) corresponds to an existing index entry with
+		 * skip-worktree set, or 2) does not exist in the index but is
+		 * outside the sparse checkout definition, add a skip-worktree bit
+		 * to the new index entry.
+		 */
+		pos = cache_name_pos(one->path, strlen(one->path));
+		if ((pos >= 0 && ce_skip_worktree(active_cache[pos])) ||
+		    (pos < 0 && !path_in_sparse_checkout(one->path, &the_index)))
+			ce->ce_flags |= CE_SKIP_WORKTREE;
+
 		if (!ce)
 			die(_("make_cache_entry failed for path '%s'"),
 			    one->path);