From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:32:07 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v4 04/19] Teach Git to respect skip-worktree bit (reading part)
Message-ID: <7vd46pf4yw.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <fcaeb9bf0908210219h1c2a4702i81661ced00f39232@mail.gmail.com>

Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:

> 2009/8/20 Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>:
>> grep: turn on --cached for files that is marked skip-worktree
>> ls-files: do not check for deleted file that is marked skip-worktree
>> update-index: ignore update request if it's skip-worktree, while still allows removing
>> diff*: skip worktree version
>
> I kept reminding myself and still managed to miss it. skip-worktree
> bit is not completely independent from assume-unchanged. It shares
> CE_MATCH_IGNORE_VALID flag in ie_match_stat(). Should have mentioned
> that in commit log.

Yeah, that is why I feel uneasy reading your response to my other message:

  This series does not fix assume-unchanged bit. I'd like to focus on
  skip-worktree bit now. ... I don't know if I understand assume-unchanged
  semantics correctly anymore :-)