checkout: clarify comment

The key point for the if statement is that read_tree_some did not
update the entry, because either it doesn't exist in tree-ish or
doesn't match the pathspec.  Clarify that.

Suggested-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Thomas Gummerer 2018-12-20 13:48:17 +00:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
parent 6fdc205722
commit 5160fa0562

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@ -304,10 +304,10 @@ static int checkout_paths(const struct checkout_opts *opts,
continue;
if (opts->source_tree && !(ce->ce_flags & CE_UPDATE))
/*
* "git checkout tree-ish -- path", but this entry
* is in the original index; it will not be checked
* out to the working tree and it does not matter
* if pathspec matched this entry. We will not do
* "git checkout tree-ish -- path" and this entry
* is in the original index, but is not in tree-ish
* or does not match the pathspec; it will not be
* checked out to the working tree. We will not do
* anything to this entry at all.
*/
continue;