From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 01:20:46 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-mv: Keep moved index entries inact
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807210319410.3305@eeepc-johanness>
In-Reply-To: <20080721002354.GK10151@machine.or.cz>

Hi,

On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, Petr Baudis wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 04:54:20PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes:
> > 
> > > +test_expect_success 'git mv should not change sha1 of moved cache entry' '
> > > +
> > > +	rm -fr .git &&
> > > +	git init &&
> > > +	echo 1 >dirty &&
> > > +	git add dirty &&
> > > +	entry="$(git ls-files --stage dirty | cut -f 1)"
> > 
> > "rev-parse :dirty"?
> 
> I want to make sure the whole index entry is intact, not just the sha1.

"rev-parse :dirty" will have to read the index to get at the object name 
of "dirty".  So there you have your index validation for you.

Ciao,
Dscho