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Change `update_index_from_diff` to set `skip-worktree` when applicable for
new index entries. When `git reset --mixed <tree-ish>` is run, entries in
the index with differences between the pre-reset HEAD and reset <tree-ish>
are identified and handled with `update_index_from_diff`. For each file, a
new cache entry in inserted into the index, created from the <tree-ish> side
of the reset (without changing the working tree). However, the newly-created
entry must have `skip-worktree` explicitly set in either of the following
scenarios:
1. the file is in the current index and has `skip-worktree` set
2. the file is not in the current index but is outside of a defined sparse
checkout definition
Not setting the `skip-worktree` bit leads to likely-undesirable results for
a user. It causes `skip-worktree` settings to disappear on the
"diff"-containing files (but *only* the diff-containing files), leading to
those files now showing modifications in `git status`. For example, when
running `git reset --mixed` in a sparse checkout, some file entries outside
of sparse checkout could show up as deleted, despite the user never deleting
anything (and not wanting them on-disk anyway).
Additionally, add a test to `t7102` to ensure `skip-worktree` is preserved
in a basic `git reset --mixed` scenario and update a failure-documenting
test from 19a0acc (t1092: test interesting sparse-checkout scenarios,
2021-01-23) with new expected behavior.
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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