Re: [StGit PATCH] Test that we can add a new file to a non-topmost patch with refresh -p

["Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@gmail.com>]

On 7/18/08, Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com> wrote:
> On 2008-07-18 19:03:06 +0200, Karl Hasselström wrote:
>
>  > We currently can't -- this is bug 12038, found by Jon Smirl. See
>  >
>  >   https://gna.org/bugs/index.php?12038
>
>  OK, the problem is that to pop the patches on top of the one we are to
>  refresh, we call pop_patch(keep = True). This in turn calls
>  git.switch(keep = True), which resets the index (but is careful to not
>  touch the worktree).
>
>  I'm not quite sure how to fix this in a simple way -- the code simply
>  assumes that the index contains nothing of interest. And since I
>  already have a rewrite of refresh that handles this and a handful of
>  other cases that the old code does not, I'm kind of disinclined to
>  undertake a larger restructuring of the code.

It's no big deal to me, it is easy to work around. But it did take me
a while to notice that the add was missing.

When is the refresh rewrite going to be ready for prime time?

>
>  Catalin, what do you think?
>
>
>  --
>  Karl Hasselström, kha@treskal.com
>       www.treskal.com/kalle
>


-- 
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com