Re: [PATCH v6 3/4] reset: add a few tests for "git reset --merge"

Christian Couder [off-list ref] writes:

Commit 9e8eceab ("Add 'merge' mode to 'git reset'", 2008-12-01),
added the --merge option to git reset, but there were no test cases
for it.

This was not a big problem because "git reset" was just forking and
execing "git read-tree", but this will change in a following patch.

So let's add a few test cases to make sure that there will be no
regression.

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <redacted>

Looks good.

+# The next test will test the following:
+#
+#           working index HEAD target         working index HEAD
+#           ----------------------------------------------------
+# file1:     C       C     C    D     --merge  D       D     D
+# file2:     C       D     D    D     --merge  C       D     D
+test_expect_success 'reset --merge is ok with changes in file it does not touch' '
+    git reset --merge HEAD^ &&
+    ! grep 4 file1 &&
+    grep 4 file2 &&
+    test "$(git rev-parse HEAD)" = "$(git rev-parse initial)" &&
+    test -z "$(git diff --cached)"
+'
...
+# The next test will test the following:
+#
+#           working index HEAD target         working index HEAD
+#           ----------------------------------------------------
+# file1:     C       C     C    D     --merge  D       D     D
+# file2:     C       C     D    D     --merge  D       D     D
+test_expect_success 'reset --merge discards changes added to index (2)' '
+    git reset --hard second &&
+    echo "line 4" >> file2 &&
+    git add file2 &&
+    git reset --merge HEAD^ &&
+    ! grep 4 file2 &&
+    test "$(git rev-parse HEAD)" = "$(git rev-parse initial)" &&
+    test -z "$(git diff)" &&
+    test -z "$(git diff --cached)"
+'

These two seem to duplicate the same case for file1; is it necessary?

I am not pointing it out as something that needs to be removed; I am just
puzzled and wondering if there is some interaction between the ways two
paths are handled and the test is trying to check that (which I do not
think is the case).