From 8dfb04ae964868dda758997e5e7da29edff6164b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:49:37 +0000 Subject: update-index: optionally leave skip-worktree entries alone While `git update-index` mostly ignores paths referring to index entries whose skip-worktree bit is set, in b4d1690df11 (Teach Git to respect skip-worktree bit (reading part), 2009-08-20), for reasons that are not entirely obvious, the `--remove` option was made special: it _does_ remove index entries even if their skip-worktree bit is set. Seeing as this behavior has been in place for a decade now, it does not make sense to change it. However, in preparation for fixing a bug in `git stash` where it pretends that skip-worktree entries have actually been removed, we need a mode where `git update-index` leaves all skip-worktree entries alone, even if the `--remove` option was passed. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/git-update-index.txt | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/git-update-index.txt b/Documentation/git-update-index.txt index 1c4d146a41..08393445e7 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-update-index.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-update-index.txt @@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ SYNOPSIS [--chmod=(+|-)x] [--[no-]assume-unchanged] [--[no-]skip-worktree] + [--[no-]ignore-skip-worktree-entries] [--[no-]fsmonitor-valid] [--ignore-submodules] [--[no-]split-index] @@ -113,6 +114,11 @@ you will need to handle the situation manually. set and unset the "skip-worktree" bit for the paths. See section "Skip-worktree bit" below for more information. + +--[no-]ignore-skip-worktree-entries:: + Do not remove skip-worktree (AKA "index-only") entries even when + the `--remove` option was specified. + --[no-]fsmonitor-valid:: When one of these flags is specified, the object name recorded for the paths are not updated. Instead, these options -- cgit v1.2.3