# Fwd: Bug in `git add -N xyz ; git stash` command

4 messages from 2020-12-16 to 2020-12-17. Participants: Σταύρος Ντέντος, Junio C Hamano.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/54837

## Σταύρος Ντέντος, 2020-12-16 10:48

Subject: Fwd: Bug in `git add -N xyz ; git stash` command
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Hello there,

I think I have found a bug with the following series of commands:

$ git add -N xyz ; git stash
error: Entry 'xyz' not uptodate. Cannot merge.
Cannot save the current worktree state

It has bothered me that `git add -N xyz` "is not obvious that it is
done", unless you know that you did it - and now it seems that there
is some buggy behavior about that.
I could've sworn that there is not even a file change on the
repository (because I sync it between a VM, and after a `git pull` I
saw 3 file changes, two of them being the branch head and the log
branch head)

With regards,
Ntentos Stavros


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From: Σταύρος Ντέντος <stdedos@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2020 at 12:32
Subject: Bug in `git add -N xyz ; git stash` command
To: git <git@vger.kernel.org>


Hello there,

I think I have found a bug with the following series of commands:

$ git add -N xyz ; git stash
error: Entry 'xyz' not uptodate. Cannot merge.
Cannot save the current worktree state

It has bothered me that `git add -N xyz` "is not obvious that it is
done", unless you know that you did it - and now it seems that there
is some buggy behavior about that.
I could've sworn that there is not even a file change on the
repository (because I sync it between a VM, and after a `git pull` I
saw 3 file changes, two of them being the branch head and the log
branch head)

With regards,
Ntentos Stavros

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## Junio C Hamano, 2020-12-16 19:17

Subject: Re: Fwd: Bug in `git add -N xyz ; git stash` command
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Σταύρος Ντέντος  <stdedos@gmail.com> writes:

> I think I have found a bug with the following series of commands:
>
> $ git add -N xyz ; git stash
> error: Entry 'xyz' not uptodate. Cannot merge.
> Cannot save the current worktree state
>
> It has bothered me that `git add -N xyz` "is not obvious that it is
> done", unless you know that you did it - and now it seems that there
> is some buggy behavior about that.

Hmph, is this the same issue as what we discussed in

https://lore.kernel.org/git/CA+dzEBmh4LdN-XFS9y9YKrDMzV_7+QpDzBA2uv9Xi80PgR5NTQ@mail.gmail.com/

I wonder.

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## Σταύρος Ντέντος, 2020-12-17 08:43

Subject: Re: Fwd: Bug in `git add -N xyz ; git stash` command
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It seems like it, yes.

Not deciding to fix that (or not agreeing on how to fix it), should be
orthogonal from the "what does the error message says" about it.
I would expect something like "'xyz' is marked with intent-to-add;
either stage (git add xyz) or remove the file (git ... xyz); refusing
to stage."

With regards,
Ntentos Stavros

On Wed, 16 Dec 2020 at 21:17, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> Σταύρος Ντέντος  <stdedos@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I think I have found a bug with the following series of commands:
> >
> > $ git add -N xyz ; git stash
> > error: Entry 'xyz' not uptodate. Cannot merge.
> > Cannot save the current worktree state
> >
> > It has bothered me that `git add -N xyz` "is not obvious that it is
> > done", unless you know that you did it - and now it seems that there
> > is some buggy behavior about that.
>
> Hmph, is this the same issue as what we discussed in
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/git/CA+dzEBmh4LdN-XFS9y9YKrDMzV_7+QpDzBA2uv9Xi80PgR5NTQ@mail.gmail.com/
>
> I wonder.

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## Junio C Hamano, 2020-12-17 19:42

Subject: Re: Fwd: Bug in `git add -N xyz ; git stash` command
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Σταύρος Ντέντος  <stdedos@gmail.com> writes:

> Not deciding to fix that (or not agreeing on how to fix it), should be
> orthogonal from the "what does the error message says" about it.
> I would expect something like "'xyz' is marked with intent-to-add;
> either stage (git add xyz) or remove the file (git ... xyz); refusing
> to stage."

"refusing to stash", you mean?

I think that your wording may be an improvement.  Care to whip up a
patch?

Thanks.

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