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[PATCH] update-cache --remove marks the path merged.

From
Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Apr 17, 2005, 06:00 UTC
Message-ID
<7vpswu0wpe.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

When update-cache --remove is run, resolve unmerged state for the path. This is consistent with the update-cache --add behaviour. Essentially, the user is telling us how he wants to resolve the merge by running update-cache.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
---
 read-cache.c |    4 +++-
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

read-cache.c: e16c37403092e1e94c50b04685b6417405ffc724 --- read-cache.c +++ read-cache.c 2005-04-16 22:43:55.000000000 -0700

@@ -368,7 +368,9 @@
 int remove_file_from_cache(char *path)
 {
 	int pos = cache_name_pos(path, strlen(path));
-	if (pos >= 0)
+	if (pos < 0)
+		pos = -pos-1;
+	while (! strcmp(active_cache[pos]->name, path))
 		remove_entry_at(pos);
 	return 0;
 }
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  1. update-cache --remove marks the path merged.Junio C Hamano, Apr 17, 2005

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