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Diffstat (limited to 'read-cache.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | read-cache.c | 13 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/read-cache.c b/read-cache.c index 372588260e..666d295a5a 100644 --- a/read-cache.c +++ b/read-cache.c @@ -2632,10 +2632,13 @@ out: /* * Read the index file that is potentially unmerged into given - * index_state, dropping any unmerged entries. Returns true if - * the index is unmerged. Callers who want to refuse to work - * from an unmerged state can call this and check its return value, - * instead of calling read_cache(). + * index_state, dropping any unmerged entries to stage #0 (potentially + * resulting in a path appearing as both a file and a directory in the + * index; the caller is responsible to clear out the extra entries + * before writing the index to a tree). Returns true if the index is + * unmerged. Callers who want to refuse to work from an unmerged + * state can call this and check its return value, instead of calling + * read_cache(). */ int read_index_unmerged(struct index_state *istate) { @@ -2658,7 +2661,7 @@ int read_index_unmerged(struct index_state *istate) new_ce->ce_flags = create_ce_flags(0) | CE_CONFLICTED; new_ce->ce_namelen = len; new_ce->ce_mode = ce->ce_mode; - if (add_index_entry(istate, new_ce, 0)) + if (add_index_entry(istate, new_ce, ADD_CACHE_SKIP_DFCHECK)) return error("%s: cannot drop to stage #0", new_ce->name); } |