Re: [PATCH v3] stash: implement '--staged' option for 'push' and 'save'

On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 07:09:06PM +0300, Sergey Organov wrote:

+static int stash_staged(struct stash_info *info, const struct pathspec *ps,
+			struct strbuf *out_patch, int quiet)
+{
+	int ret = 0;
+	struct child_process cp_diff_tree = CHILD_PROCESS_INIT;
+	struct index_state istate = { NULL };
+
+	if (write_index_as_tree(&info->w_tree, &istate, the_repository->index_file,
+				0, NULL)) {
+		ret = -1;
+		goto done;
+	}
+
+	cp_diff_tree.git_cmd = 1;
+	strvec_pushl(&cp_diff_tree.args, "diff-tree", "-p", "-U1", "HEAD",
+		     oid_to_hex(&info->w_tree), "--", NULL);
+	if (pipe_command(&cp_diff_tree, NULL, 0, out_patch, 0, NULL, 0)) {
+		ret = -1;
+		goto done;
+	}
+
+	if (!out_patch->len) {
+		if (!quiet)
+			fprintf_ln(stderr, _("No staged changes"));
+		ret = 1;
+	}
+
+done:
+	discard_index(&istate);
+	return ret;
+}

This function doesn't look at its "struct pathspec" parameter at all.
I'm not sure if that's a bug (i.e., it should be restricting the diff
here) or if it was just pulled unnecessarily over from stash_patch().

-Peff