From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2022 08:46:38 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] stash: disable literal treatment when passing top pathspec
Message-ID: <220408.868rsgc67o.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <e93e9bb1-8bd1-a70f-f671-ca322c14c7a1@gmail.com>


On Fri, Apr 08 2022, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:

> On 08/04/22 10.12, Kyle Meyer wrote:
>> +test_expect_success 'stash -u works with --literal-pathspecs' '
>> +	>untracked &&
>> +	git --literal-pathspecs stash -u &&
>> +	test_path_is_missing untracked
>> +'
>
> Why not "touch untracked" instead?

The ">" form is correct here. We use "touch" when updating the timestamp
to something in particular is important, but here we're just creating an
empty file.