The fix is short (~30 lines), but the description is not. Sorry.
There is a set of problems caused by files in what I'll refer to as the
"present-despite-SKIP_WORKTREE" state. This commit aims to not just fix
these problems, but remove the entire class as a possibility -- for
those using sparse checkouts. But first, we need to understand the
problems this class presents. A quick outline:
* Problems
* User facing issues
* Problem space complexity
* Maintenance and code correctness challenges
* SKIP_WORKTREE expectations in Git
* Suggested solution
* Pros/Cons of suggested solution
* Notes on testcase modifications
=== User facing issues ===
There are various ways for users to get files to be present in the
working copy despite having the SKIP_WORKTREE bit set for that file in
the index. This may come from:
* various git commands not really supporting the SKIP_WORKTREE bit[1,2]
* users grabbing files from elsewhere and writing them to the worktree
(perhaps even cached in their editor)
* users attempting to "abort" a sparse-checkout operation with a
not-so-early Ctrl+C (updating $GIT_DIR/info/sparse-checkout and the
working tree is not atomic)[3].
Once users have present-despite-SKIP_WORKTREE files, any modifications
users make to these files will be ignored, possibly to users' confusion.
Further:
* these files will degrade performance for the sparse-index case due
to requiring the index to be expanded (see commit 55dfcf9591
("sparse-checkout: clear tracked sparse dirs", 2021-09-08) for why
we try to delete entire directories outside the sparse cone).
* these files will not be updated by by standard commands
(switch/checkout/pull/merge/rebase will leave them alone unless
conflicts happen -- and even then, the conflicted file may be
written somewhere else to avoid overwriting the SKIP_WORKTREE file
that is present and in the way)
* there is nothing in Git that users can use to discover such
files (status, diff, grep, etc. all ignore it)
* there is no reasonable mechanism to "recover" from such a condition
(neither `git sparse-checkout reapply` nor `git reset --hard` will
correct it).
So, not only are users modifications ignored, but the files get
progressively more stale over time. At some point in the future, they
may change their sparseness specification or disable sparse-checkouts.
At that time, all present-despite-SKIP_WORKTREE files will show up as
having lots of modifications because they represent a version from a
different branch or commit. These might include user-made local changes
from days before, but the only way to tell is to have users look through
them all closely.
If these users come to others for help, there will be no logs that
explain the issue; it's just a mysterious list of changes. Users might
adamantly claim (correctly, as it turns out) that they didn't modify
these files, while others presume they did.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqbmb1a7ga.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/git/CABPp-BH9tju7WVm=QZDOvaMDdZbpNXrVWQdN-jmfN8wC6YVhmw@mail.gmail.com/
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/git/CABPp-BFnFpzwGC11TLoLs8YK5yiisA5D5-fFjXnJsbESVDwZsA@mail.gmail.com/
=== Problem space complexity ===
SKIP_WORKTREE has been part of Git for over a decade. Duy did lots of
work on it initially, and several others have since come along and put
lots of work into it. Stolee spent most of 2021 on the sparse-index,
with lots of bugfixes along the way including to non-sparse-index cases
as we are still trying to get sparse checkouts to behave reasonably.
Basically every codepath throughout the treat needs to be aware of an
additional type of file: tracked-but-not-present. The extra type
results in lots of extra testcases and lots of extra code everywhere.
But, the sad thing is that we actually have more than one extra type.
We have tracked, tracked-but-not-present (SKIP_WORKTREE), and
tracked-but-promised-to-not-be-present-but-is-present-anyway
(present-despite-SKIP_WORKTREE). Two types is a monumental amount of
effort to support, and adding a third feels a bit like insanity[4].
[4] Some examples of which can be seen at
https://lore.kernel.org/git/CABPp-BGJ_Nvi5TmgriD9Bh6eNXE2EDq2f8e8QKXAeYG3BxZafA@mail.gmail.com/
=== Maintenance and code correctness challenges ===
Matheus' patches to grep stalled for nearly a year, in part because of
complications of how to handle sparse-checkouts appropriately in all
cases[5][6] (with trying to sanely figure out how to sanely handle
present-despite-SKIP_WORKTREE files being one of the complications).
His rm/add follow-ups also took months because of those kinds of
issues[7]. The corner cases with things like submodules and
SKIP_WORKTREE with the addition of present-despite-SKIP_WORKTREE start
becoming really complex[8].
We've had to add ugly logic to merge-ort to attempt to handle
present-despite-SKIP_WORKTREE files[9], and basically just been forced
to give up in merge-recursive knowing full well that we'll sometimes
silently discard user modifications. Despite stash essentially being a
merge, it needed extra code (beyond what was in merge-ort and
merge-recursive) to manually tweak SKIP_WORKTREE bits in order to avoid
a few different bugs that'd result in an early abort with a partial
stash application[10].
[5] See https://lore.kernel.org/git/5f3f7ac77039d41d1692ceae4b0c5df3bb45b74a.1612901326.git.matheus.bernardino@usp.br/#t
and the dates on the thread; also Matheus and I had several
conversations off-list trying to resolve the issues over that time
[6] ...it finally kind of got unstuck after
https://lore.kernel.org/git/CABPp-BGJ_Nvi5TmgriD9Bh6eNXE2EDq2f8e8QKXAeYG3BxZafA@mail.gmail.com/
[7] See for example
https://lore.kernel.org/git/CABPp-BHwNoVnooqDFPAsZxBT9aR5Dwk5D9sDRCvYSb8akxAJgA@mail.gmail.com/#t
and quotes like "The core functionality of sparse-checkout has always
been only partially implemented", a statement I still believe is true
today.
[8] https://lore.kernel.org/git/pull.809.git.git.1592356884310.gitgitgadget@gmail.com/
[9] See commit 66b209b86a ("merge-ort: implement CE_SKIP_WORKTREE
handling with conflicted entries", 2021-03-20)
[10] See commit ba359fd507 ("stash: fix stash application in
sparse-checkouts", 2020-12-01)
=== SKIP_WORKTREE expectations in Git ===
A couple quotes:
* From [11] (before the "sparse-checkout" command existed):
If it needs too many special cases, hacks, and conditionals, then it
is not worth the complexity---if it is easier to write a correct code
by allowing Git to populate working tree files, it is perfectly fine
to do so.
In a sense, the sparse checkout "feature" itself is a hack by itself,
and that is why I think this part should be "best effort" as well.
* From the git-sparse-checkout manual (still present today):
THIS COMMAND IS EXPERIMENTAL. ITS BEHAVIOR, AND THE BEHAVIOR OF OTHER
COMMANDS IN THE PRESENCE OF SPARSE-CHECKOUTS, WILL LIKELY CHANGE IN
THE FUTURE.
[11] https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqbmb1a7ga.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com/
=== Suggested solution ===
SKIP_WORKTREE was written to allow sparse-checkouts, in particular, as
the name of the option implies, to allow the file to NOT be in the
worktree but consider it to be unchanged rather than deleted.
The suggests a simple solution: present-despite-SKIP_WORKTREE files
should not exist, for those using sparse-checkouts.
Enforce this at index loading time by checking if core.sparseCheckout is
true; if so, check files in the index with the SKIP_WORKTREE bit set to
verify that they are absent from the working tree. If they are present,
unset the bit (in memory, though any commands that write to the index
will record the update).
Users can, of course, can get the SKIP_WORKTREE bit back such as by
running `git sparse-checkout reapply` (if they have ensured the file is
unmodified and doesn't match the specified sparsity patterns).
=== Pros/Cons of suggested solution ===
Pros:
* Solves the user visible problems reported above, which I've been
complaining about for nearly a year but couldn't find a solution to.
* Helps prevent slow performance degradation with a sparse-index.
* Much easier behavior in sparse-checkouts for users to reason about
* Very simple, ~30 lines of code.
* Significantly simplifies some ugly testcases, and obviates the need
to test an entire class of potential issues.
* Reduces code complexity, reasoning, and maintenance. Avoids
disagreements about weird corner cases[12].
* It has been reported that some users might be (ab)using
SKIP_WORKTREE as a let-me-modify-but-keep-the-file-in-the-worktree
mechanism[13, and a few other similar references]. These users know
of multiple caveats and shortcomings in doing so; perhaps not
surprising given the "SKIP_WORKTREE expecations" section above.
However, these users use `git update-index --skip-worktree`, and not
`git sparse-checkout` or core.sparseCheckout=true. As such, these
users would be unaffected by this change and can continue abusing
the system as before.
[12] https://lore.kernel.org/git/CABPp-BH9tju7WVm=QZDOvaMDdZbpNXrVWQdN-jmfN8wC6YVhmw@mail.gmail.com/
[13] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13630849/git-difference-between-assume-unchanged-and-skip-worktree
Cons:
* When core.sparseCheckout is enabled, this adds a performance cost to
reading the index. I'll defer discussion of this cost to a subsequent
patch, since I have some optimizations to add.
=== Notes on testcase modifications ===
The good:
* t1011: Compare to two cases above it ('read-tree will not throw away
dirty changes, non-sparse'); since the file is present, it should
match the non-sparse case now
* t1092: sparse-index & sparse-checkout now match full-worktree
behavior in more cases! Yaay for consistency!
* t6428, t7012: look at how much simpler the tests become! Merge and
stash can just fail early telling the user there's a file in the
way, instead of not noticing until it's about to write a file and
then have to implement sudden crash avoidance. Hurray for sanity!
* t7817: sparse behavior better matches full tree behavior. Hurray
for sanity!
The confusing:
* t3705: These changes were ONLY needed on Windows, but they don't
hurt other platforms. Let's discuss each individually:
* core.sparseCheckout should be false by default. Nothing in this
testcase toggles that until many, many tests later. However,
early tests (#5 in particular) were testing `update-index
--skip-worktree` behavior in a non-sparse-checkout, but the
Windows tests in CI were behaving as if core.sparseCheckout=true
had been specified somewhere. I do not have access to a Windows
machine. But I just manually did what should have been a no-op
and turned the config off. And it fixed the test.
* I have no idea why the leftover .gitattributes file from this
test was causing failures for test #18 on Windows, but only with
these changes of mine. Test #18 was checking for empty stderr,
and specifically wanted to know that some error completely
unrelated to file endings did not appear. The leftover
.gitattributes file thus caused some spurious stderr unrelated to
the thing being checked. Since other tests did not intend to
test normalization, just proactively remove the .gitattributes
file. I'm certain this is cleaner and better, I'm just unsure
why/how this didn't trigger problems before.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
For sparse-checkouts, we don't want unpack-trees to error out on files
that are missing from the worktree, so there has traditionally been
logic to make it skip the verify_uptodate() check for these.
Unfortunately, it was skipping the verify_uptodate() check for files
that were expected to *become* SKIP_WORKTREE. For files that were not
already SKIP_WORKTREE, that can cause us to later delete the file in
apply_sparse_checkout(). Only skip the check for files that were
already SKIP_WORKTREE as well to avoid lightly discarding important
changes users may have made to files.
Note 1: unpack-trees.c is already a bit complex, and the logic around
CE_SKIP_WORKTREE and CE_NEW_SKIP_WORKTREE in that file are no exception.
I also tried just replacing CE_NEW_SKIP_WORKTREE with CE_SKIP_WORKTREE
in the verify_uptodate() check instead of checking for both flags, and
found that it also fixed this bug and passed all the tests. I also
attempted to devise a few testcases that might trip either variant of my
fix and was unable to find any problems. It may be that just checking
CE_SKIP_WORKTREE is a better fix, but I'm not sure. I thought it
was a bit safer to strictly reduce the number of cases where we skip the
up-to-date check rather than just toggling which kind of cases skip it,
and thus went with the current variant of the fix.
Note 2: I also wondered if verify_absent() might have a similar bug, but
despite my attempts to try to devise a testcase that would trigger such
a thing, I couldn't find any problematic testcases. Thus, this patch
makes no attempt to apply similar changes to verify_absent() and
verify_absent_if_directory().
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If a user has a file with local modifications that is not marked as
SKIP_WORKTREE, but the sparsity patterns are such that it should be
marked that way, and the user then invokes a command like
* git checkout -q HEAD^
or
* git read-tree -mu HEAD^
Then the file will be deleted along with all the users' modifications.
Add a testcase demonstrating this problem.
Note: This bug only triggers if something other than 'HEAD' is given;
if the commands above had specified 'HEAD', then the users' file would
be left alone.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As a follow-up to d162b25f95 (tests: remove support for
GIT_TEST_GETTEXT_POISON, 2021-01-20) remove most uses of test_i18ncmp
via a simple s/test_i18ncmp/test_cmp/g search-replacement.
I'm leaving t6300-for-each-ref.sh out due to a conflict with in-flight
changes between "master" and "seen", as well as the prerequisite
itself due to other changes between "master" and "next/seen" which add
new test_i18ncmp uses.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Carefully excluding t1309, which sees independent development elsewhere
at the time of writing, we transition above-mentioned tests to the
default branch name `main`. This trick was performed via
$ (cd t &&
sed -i -e 's/master/main/g' -e 's/MASTER/MAIN/g' \
-e 's/Master/Main/g' -e 's/naster/nain/g' -- t[01]*.sh &&
git checkout HEAD -- t1309\*)
Note that t5533 contains a variation of the name `master` (`naster`)
that we rename here, too.
This allows us to define `GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_INITIAL_BRANCH_NAME=main`
for those tests.
Helped-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Remove the error condition when updating the sparse-checkout leaves
an empty working directory.
This behavior was added in 9e1afb167 (sparse checkout: inhibit empty
worktree, 2009-08-20). The comment was added in a7bc906f2 (Add
explanation why we do not allow to sparse checkout to empty working
tree, 2011-09-22) in response to a "dubious" comment in 84563a624
(unpack-trees.c: cosmetic fix, 2010-12-22).
With the recent "cone mode" and "git sparse-checkout init [--cone]"
command, it is common to set a reasonable sparse-checkout pattern
set of
/*
!/*/
which matches only files at root. If the repository has no such files,
then their "git sparse-checkout init" command will fail.
Now that we expect this to be a common pattern, we should not have the
commands fail on an empty working directory. If it is a confusing
result, then the user can recover with "git sparse-checkout disable"
or "git sparse-checkout set". This is especially simple when using cone
mode.
Reported-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Setting and clearing of the SKIP_WORKTREE bit is not only done when
users run 'sparse-checkout'; other commands such as 'checkout' also run
through unpack_trees() which has logic for handling this special bit.
As such, we need to consider how they handle special cases. A couple
comparison points should help explain the rationale for changing how
unpack_trees() handles these bits:
Ignoring sparse checkouts for a moment, if you are switching
branches and have dirty changes, it is only considered an error that
will prevent the branch switching from being successful if the dirty
file happens to be one of the paths with different contents.
SKIP_WORKTREE has always been considered advisory; for example, if
rebase or merge need or even want to materialize a path as part of
their work, they have always been allowed to do so regardless of the
SKIP_WORKTREE setting. This has been used for unmerged paths, but
it was often used for paths it wasn't needed just because it made
the code simpler. It was a best-effort consideration, and when it
materialized paths contrary to the SKIP_WORKTREE setting, it was
never required to even print a warning message.
In the past if you trying to run e.g. 'git checkout' and:
1) you had a path that was materialized and had some dirty changes
2) the path was listed in $GITDIR/info/sparse-checkout
3) this path did not different between the current and target branches
then despite the comparison points above, the inability to set
SKIP_WORKTREE was treated as a *hard* error that would abort the
checkout operation. This is completely inconsistent with how
SKIP_WORKTREE is handled elsewhere, and rather annoying for users as
leaving the paths materialized in the working copy (with a simple
warning) should present no problem at all.
Downgrade any errors from inability to toggle the SKIP_WORKTREE bit to a
warning and allow the operations to continue.
Reviewed-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Use test_must_be_empty instead of comparing it to an empty file. That's
more efficient, as the function only needs built-in meta-data only check
in the usual case, and provides nicer debug output otherwise.
Helped-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Change various tests that use an idiom of the form:
>expect &&
test_cmp expect actual
To instead use:
test_must_be_empty actual
The test_must_be_empty() wrapper was introduced in ca8d148daf ("test:
test_must_be_empty helper", 2013-06-09). Many of these tests have been
added after that time. This was mostly found with, and manually pruned
from:
git grep '^\s+>.*expect.* &&$' t
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Adjust the test so that it computes the expected hash value dynamically
instead of relying on a hard-coded hash. Hoist some code earlier in the
test to make this possible.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git add -N dir/file && git write-tree" produced an incorrect tree
when there are other paths in the same directory that sorts after
"file".
* nd/cache-tree-ita:
cache-tree: do not generate empty trees as a result of all i-t-a subentries
cache-tree.c: fix i-t-a entry skipping directory updates sometimes
test-lib.sh: introduce and use $EMPTY_BLOB
test-lib.sh: introduce and use $EMPTY_TREE
Similar to $EMPTY_TREE this makes it easier to recognize this special
SHA-1 and change hash later.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Use functions test_i18ncmp and test_i18ngrep to successfully pass tests
running under GETTEXT_POISON.
The output strings compared to in these test were marked for translation
in ed47fdf ("i18n: unpack-trees: mark strings for translation",
2016-04-09) and later improved in 2e3926b ("i18n: unpack-trees: avoid
substituting only a verb in sentences", 2016-05-12).
Signed-off-by: Vasco Almeida <vascomalmeida@sapo.pt>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git checkout -- <paths>" is usually used to restore all modified
files in <paths>. In sparse checkout mode, this command is overloaded
with another meaning: to add back all files in <paths> that are
excluded by sparse patterns.
As the former makes more sense for day-to-day use. Switch it to the
default and the latter enabled with --ignore-skip-worktree-bits.
While at there, add info/sparse-checkout to gitrepository-layout.txt
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* nd/maint-sparse-errors:
Add explanation why we do not allow to sparse checkout to empty working tree
sparse checkout: show error messages when worktree shaping fails
verify_* functions can queue errors up and to be printed later at
label return_failed. In case of errors, do not go to label "done"
directly because all queued messages would be dropped on the floor.
Found-by: Joshua Jensen <jjensen@workspacewhiz.com>
Tracked-down-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The option can be used to check if read-tree with the same set of other
options like "-m" and "-u" would succeed without actually changing either
the index or the working tree.
The relevant tests in the t10?? range were extended to do a read-tree -n
before the real read-tree to make sure neither the index nor any local
files were changed with -n and the same exit code as without -n is
returned. The helper functions added for that purpose reside in the new
t/lib-read-tree.sh file.
The only exception is #13 in t1004 ("unlinking an un-unlink-able
symlink"). As this is an issue of wrong directory permissions it is not
detected with -n.
Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Sparse-setting code follows closely how files are excluded in
read_directory(), every entry (including directories) are fed to
excluded_from_list() to decide if the entry is suitable. Directories
are treated no different than files. If a directory is matched (or
not), the whole directory is considered matched (or not) and the
process moves on.
This generally works as long as there are no patterns to exclude parts
of the directory. In case of sparse checkout code, the following patterns
t
!t/t0000-basic.sh
will produce a worktree with full directory "t" even if t0000-basic.sh
is requested to stay out.
By the same reasoning, if a directory is to be excluded, any rules to
re-include certain files within that directory will be ignored.
Fix it by always checking files against patterns. If no pattern can be
used to decide whether an entry is in our out
(ie. excluded_from_list() returns -1), the entry will be
included/excluded the same as their parent directory.
Noticed-by: <skillzero@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Do not append to $GIT_DIR/info/sparse-checkout at each test, overwrite
it instead.
Also add sub/addedtoo for more complex tests later on
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* nd/maint-fix-add-typo-detection:
Revert "excluded_1(): support exclude files in index"
unpack-trees: fix sparse checkout's "unable to match directories"
unpack-trees: move all skip-worktree checks back to unpack_trees()
dir.c: add free_excludes()
cache.h: realign and use (1 << x) form for CE_* constants
Matching index entries against an excludes file currently has two
problems.
First, there's no function to do it. Code paths (like sparse
checkout) that wanted to try it would iterate over index entries and
for each index entry pass that path to excluded_from_list(). But that
is not how excluded_from_list() works; one is supposed to feed in each
ancester of a path before a given path to find out if it was excluded
because of some parent or grandparent matching a
bigsubdirectory/
pattern despite the path not matching any .gitignore pattern directly.
Second, it's inefficient. The excludes mechanism is supposed to let
us block off vast swaths of the filesystem as uninteresting; separately
checking every index entry doesn't fit that model.
Introduce a new function to take care of both these problems. This
traverses the index in depth-first order (well, that's what order the
index is in) to mark un-excluded entries.
Maybe some day the in-core index format will be restructured to make
this sort of operation easier. Or maybe we will want to try some
binary search based thing. The interface is simple enough to allow
all those things. Example:
clear_ce_flags(the_index.cache, the_index.cache_nr,
CE_CANDIDATE, CE_CLEARME, exclude_list);
would clear the CE_CLEARME flag on all index entries with
CE_CANDIDATE flag and not matched by exclude_list.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Breaks in a test assertion's && chain can potentially hide
failures from earlier commands in the chain.
Commands intended to fail should be marked with !, test_must_fail, or
test_might_fail. The examples in this patch do not require that.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit c84de70 (excluded_1(): support exclude files in index -
2009-08-20) tries to work around the fact that there is no
directory/file information in index entries, therefore
EXC_FLAG_MUSTBEDIR match would fail.
Unfortunately the workaround is flawed. This fixes it.
Reported-by: Thomas Rinderknecht <thomasr@sailguy.org>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Sparse checkout narrows worktree down based on the skip-worktree bit
before and after $GIT_DIR/info/sparse-checkout application. If it does
not have that bit before but does after, a narrow is detected and the
file will be removed from worktree.
New files added by merge, however, does not have skip-worktree bit. If
those files appear to be outside checkout area, the same rule applies:
the file gets removed from worktree even though they don't exist in
worktree.
Just pretend they have skip-worktree before in that case, so the rule
is ignored.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To avoid touching the worktree outside a sparse checkout,
when the update flag is enabled unpack_trees() clears the
CE_UPDATE and CE_REMOVE flags on entries that do not match the
sparse pattern before actually committing any updates to the
index file or worktree.
The effect on the index was unintentional; sparse checkout was
never meant to prevent index updates outside the area checked
out. And the result is very confusing: for example, after a
failed merge, currently "git reset --hard" does not reset the
state completely but an additional "git reset --mixed" will.
So stop clearing the CE_REMOVE flag. Instead, maintain a
CE_WT_REMOVE flag to separately track whether a particular
file removal should apply to the worktree in addition to the
index or not.
The CE_WT_REMOVE flag is used already to mark files that
should be removed because of a narrowing checkout area. That
usage will still apply; do not clear the CE_WT_REMOVE flag
in that case (detectable because the CE_REMOVE flag is not
set).
This bug masked some other bugs illustrated by the test
suite, which will be addressed by later patches.
Reported-by: Frédéric Brière <fbriere@fbriere.net>
Fixes: http://bugs.debian.org/583699
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The purpose of this clearing is, as explained in comment, because
verify_*() may set those bits before apply_sparse_checkout() is
called. By that time, it's not clear whether an entry will stay in
checkout area or out. After $GIT_DIR/info/sparse-checkout is applied,
we know what entries will be in finally. It's time to clean unwanted
bits.
That works perfectly when checkout area remains unchanged. When
checkout area changes, apply_sparse_checkout() may set CE_UPDATE
or CE_WT_REMOVE to widen/narrow checkout area. Doing the clearing
after apply_sparse_checkout() may clear those widening/narrowing
bits unexpectedly.
So, only do that on entries that are not affected by checkout area
changes (i.e. skip-worktree bit does not change after
apply_sparse_checkout).
This code does not actually fix anything though, just
future-proof. The removed code and the narrow/widen code inside
apply_sparse_checkout are currently independent (narrow code never
sets CE_REMOVE, widen code sets CE_UPDATE, but ce_skip_worktree()
would be false).
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Tweak the rest of the script to more closely follow the test
style guide. Guarding setup commands with test_expect_success
makes it easy to see the scope in which some particular data is
used; removal of whitespace after >redirection operators is just
for consistency.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We should avoid duplicate test numbers, since things like
GIT_SKIP_TESTS consider something like t1009.5 to be
unambiguous.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-25 16:08:22 -08:00
Renamed from t/t1009-read-tree-sparse-checkout.sh (Browse further)
