From: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2022 15:08:50 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/7] mv: update sparsity after moving from out-of-cone to in-cone
Message-ID: <3e84bdc5-31e7-a7aa-8404-228424810f35@github.com>
In-Reply-To: <20220623114120.12768-3-shaoxuan.yuan02@gmail.com>

On 6/23/2022 7:41 AM, Shaoxuan Yuan wrote:
> Originally, "git mv" a sparse file from out-of-cone to
> in-cone does not update the moved file's sparsity (remove its
> SKIP_WORKTREE bit). And the corresponding cache entry is, unexpectedly,
> not checked out in the working tree.
> 
> Update the behavior so that:
> 1. Moving from out-of-cone to in-cone removes the SKIP_WORKTREE bit from
>    corresponding cache entry.
> 2. The moved cache entry is checked out in the working tree to reflect
>    the updated sparsity.

Since this is a behavior change, can we test it? It would be good
to verify that the new path exists in the worktree after 'git mv'
succeeds.
 
Thanks,
-Stolee