Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] stash: keep untracked files intact in stash -k

> On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 10:12:19PM +0000, Thomas Gummerer wrote:
> 
> > Currently when there are untracked changes in a file "one" and in a file
> > "two" in the repository and the user uses:
> > 
> >     git stash push -k one
> > 
> > all changes in "two" are wiped out completely.  That is clearly not the
> > intended result.  Make sure that only the files given in the pathspec
> > are changed when git stash push -k <pathspec> is used.
> 
> Good description.

> > diff --git a/git-stash.sh b/git-stash.sh
> > index 13711764a9..2fb651b2b8 100755
> > --- a/git-stash.sh
> > +++ b/git-stash.sh
> > @@ -314,7 +314,9 @@ push_stash () {
> >  
> >  		if test "$keep_index" = "t" && test -n "$i_tree"
> >  		then
> > -			git read-tree --reset -u $i_tree
> > +			git read-tree --reset $i_tree
> > +			git ls-files -z --modified -- "$@" |
> > +			git checkout-index -z --force --stdin
> >  		fi
> 
> I briefly wondered if this needed "-q" to match the earlier commit, but
> "checkout-index" isn't really chatty, so I don't think so (and the
> earlier checkout-index doesn't have it either).

> I also wondered if this could be done in a single command as:
> 
>   git reset -q --hard $i_tree -- "$@"
> 
> But "git reset" can't handle pathspecs with "--hard" (which is why the
> similar case a few lines above uses the same commands).

> 
> So this looks good to me.
> 
> > +test_expect_success 'stash -k -- <pathspec> leaves unstaged files intact' '
> > +	git reset &&
> > +	>foo &&
> > +	>bar &&
> > +	git add foo bar &&
> > +	git commit -m "test" &&
> > +	echo "foo" >foo &&
> > +	echo "bar" >bar &&
> > +	git stash -k -- foo &&
> > +	test "",bar = $(cat foo),$(cat bar) &&
> > +	git stash pop &&
> > +	test foo,bar = $(cat foo),$(cat bar)
> > +'
> 
> I always get nervous when I see test arguments without quotes, but I
> think this is fine (and I couldn't see a shorter way of doing it with
> test_cmp).