Re* Change in "git checkout" behaviour between 1.6.0.2 and 1.6.0.3
From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:45:38
Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:
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Looks like a deliberate change with (what seems to me to be) an unfortunate interaction with "git clone -n"Yeah, it was meant to allow: git clone -n $there $here cd $here git checkout and was not taking care of the case to switch branches when the initial checkout is made. Perhaps this would help. ...
Here is a more involved but hopefully more maintainable fix. -- >8 -- Subject: checkout: Fix "initial checkout" detection Earlier commit 5521883 (checkout: do not lose staged removal, 2008-09-07) tightened the rule to prevent switching branches from losing local changes, so that staged removal of paths can be protected, while attempting to keep a loophole to still allow a special case of switching out of an un-checked-out state. However, the loophole was made a bit too tight, and did not allow switching from one branch (in an un-checked-out state) to check out another branch. The change to builtin-checkout.c in this commit loosens it to allow this, by not insisting the original commit and the new commit to be the same. It also introduces a new function, is_index_unborn (and an associated macro, is_cache_unborn), to check if the repository is truly in an un-checked-out state more reliably, by making sure that $GIT_INDEX_FILE did not exist when populating the in-core index structure. A few places the earlier commit 5521883 added the check for the initial checkout condition are updated to use this function. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <redacted> --- builtin-checkout.c | 3 +-- builtin-read-tree.c | 2 +- cache.h | 2 ++ read-cache.c | 5 +++++ 4 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git c/builtin-checkout.c w/builtin-checkout.c
index 05eee4e..25845cd 100644
--- c/builtin-checkout.c
+++ w/builtin-checkout.c@@ -269,8 +269,7 @@ static int merge_working_tree(struct checkout_opts *opts, } /* 2-way merge to the new branch */ - topts.initial_checkout = (!active_nr && - (old->commit == new->commit)); + topts.initial_checkout = is_cache_unborn(); topts.update = 1; topts.merge = 1; topts.gently = opts->merge;
diff --git c/builtin-read-tree.c w/builtin-read-tree.c
index 0706c95..38fef34 100644
--- c/builtin-read-tree.c
+++ w/builtin-read-tree.c@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ int cmd_read_tree(int argc, const char **argv, const char *unused_prefix) break; case 2: opts.fn = twoway_merge; - opts.initial_checkout = !active_nr; + opts.initial_checkout = is_cache_unborn(); break; case 3: default:
diff --git c/cache.h w/cache.h
index a1e4982..3960931 100644
--- c/cache.h
+++ w/cache.h@@ -255,6 +255,7 @@ static inline void remove_name_hash(struct cache_entry *ce) #define read_cache() read_index(&the_index) #define read_cache_from(path) read_index_from(&the_index, (path)) +#define is_cache_unborn() is_index_unborn(&the_index) #define read_cache_unmerged() read_index_unmerged(&the_index) #define write_cache(newfd, cache, entries) write_index(&the_index, (newfd)) #define discard_cache() discard_index(&the_index)
@@ -360,6 +361,7 @@ extern int init_db(const char *template_dir, unsigned int flags); /* Initialize and use the cache information */ extern int read_index(struct index_state *); extern int read_index_from(struct index_state *, const char *path); +extern int is_index_unborn(struct index_state *); extern int read_index_unmerged(struct index_state *); extern int write_index(const struct index_state *, int newfd); extern int discard_index(struct index_state *);
diff --git c/read-cache.c w/read-cache.c
index 967f483..525d138 100644
--- c/read-cache.c
+++ w/read-cache.c@@ -1239,6 +1239,11 @@ unmap: die("index file corrupt"); } +int is_index_unborn(struct index_state *istate) +{ + return (!istate->cache_nr && !istate->alloc && !istate->timestamp); +} + int discard_index(struct index_state *istate) { istate->cache_nr = 0;