Re: [PATCH 2/2] (resend) stash: Don't overwrite files that have gone from the index

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 09:33:40AM +0200, Thomas Rast wrote:

> Charles Bailey wrote:
> > diff --git a/git-stash.sh b/git-stash.sh
> > index 908aab2..9efc544 100755
> > --- a/git-stash.sh
> > +++ b/git-stash.sh
> > @@ -87,6 +87,8 @@ create_stash () {
> >  			export GIT_INDEX_FILE &&
> >  			git read-tree -m $i_tree &&
> >  			git add -u &&
> > +			{ git diff --quiet --diff-filter=D --cached ||
> > +				git diff -z --name-only --diff-filter=D --cached | xargs -0 git add --ignore-errors; } &&
> 
> I think you'll also have to turn it into an 'add -f' invocation since
> the file in question could conceivably have been ignored-but-tracked,
> and straight 'add' would refuse to re-track it.
> 
> (No, I don't have any good ideas on how to get rid of xargs short of
> some shell loop...)

It should probably use update-index, which has a --stdin mode, and which
doesn't care about ignores.

-Peff

PS I have not looked carefully into this issue yet, so I don't know if
   the patch actually does the right thing or not.