From: Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 20:02:34 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 3/3] merge-recursive: Tolerate missing file when HEAD is up to date
Message-ID: <CA+gQCGGRw7cTKH3zgPrsCWzMOs+FQZwt2xHU8FV-0s5x3QNZUw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq8uu5rwfk.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 2:50 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> It somehow feels wrong to force callers of make_cache_entry() to be
> so intimate with the implementation details of refresh_cache_ent()
[snip]
> option bit CE_MATCH_MISSING_OK that asks it to treat a path that is
> missing from the working tree as if it is checked out unmodified.

I came to the same conclusion after reading Elijah's last response.
My next series revision adds an argument to make_cache_entry to
specify the refresh flags and honors REFRESH_IGNORE_MISSING.

Thanks,
-Brad