From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 20:46:10 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] optionally disable overwriting of ignored files
Message-ID: <7vtymp9fn1.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20100818233900.GA27531@localhost>

Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at> writes:

> diff --git a/builtin/checkout.c b/builtin/checkout.c
> index 5affb6f..121a6a3 100644
> --- a/builtin/checkout.c
> +++ b/builtin/checkout.c
> @@ -389,6 +389,11 @@ static int merge_working_tree(struct checkout_opts *opts,
>  		topts.gently = opts->merge && old->commit;
>  		topts.verbose_update = !opts->quiet;
>  		topts.fn = twoway_merge;
> +		if (overwrite_ignored) {
> +			topts.dir = xcalloc(1, sizeof(*topts.dir));
> +			topts.dir->flags |= DIR_SHOW_IGNORED;
> +			topts.dir->exclude_per_dir = ".gitignore";
> +		}
>  		tree = parse_tree_indirect(old->commit ?
>  					   old->commit->object.sha1 :
>  					   (unsigned char *)EMPTY_TREE_SHA1_BIN);

What is this patch based on?  I don't see a branch that has these two
lines adjacent to each other as the preimage...

>  		topts.fn = twoway_merge;
>  		tree = parse_tree_indirect(old->commit ?