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author | Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> | 2022-01-14 15:59:40 +0000 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2022-01-14 14:42:20 -0800 |
commit | 26b5d6b0e56898a0284d0f45dd5a69f59257a6ab (patch) | |
tree | d1a377789b097e9ea6952b3ed2fb0f04d1b461bc /t/t4018/perl-skip-sub-in-pod | |
parent | t1011: add testcase demonstrating accidental loss of user modifications (diff) | |
download | tgif-26b5d6b0e56898a0284d0f45dd5a69f59257a6ab.tar.xz |
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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