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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Matheus Tavares <matheus.bernardino@usp.br>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, newren@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 5/7] refresh_index(): add REFRESH_DONT_MARK_SPARSE_MATCHES flag
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2021 17:00:52 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqo8fgovuz.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqsg4sowks.fsf@gitster.g> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Thu, 18 Mar 2021 16:45:23 -0700")

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> Matheus Tavares <matheus.bernardino@usp.br> writes:
>
>> refresh_index() optionally takes a seen[] array to mark the pathspec
>> items that had matches in the index. This is used by `git add --refresh`
>> to find out if there was any pathspec without matches, and display an
>> error accordingly.
>
> It smells a bit iffy in that this allows a path to "match" a pattern
> but yet not result in seen[] to record that the pattern participated
> in the match.  If the series is working towards certain operations
> not to touch paths that are outside the sparse checkout, shouldn't
> it be making these paths not to match the pattern, and by doing so
> it would automatically cause the pattern to be considered "not yet
> matching any path" when the matcher attempts to match the pattern to
> such a path?

In other words, the change makes me wonder why we are not adding a
flag that says "do we or do we not want to match paths outside the
sparse checkout cone?", with which the seen[] would automatically
record the right thing.

  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-19  0:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 93+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-12 21:01 [PATCH] rm: honor sparse checkout patterns Matheus Tavares
2020-11-12 23:54 ` Elijah Newren
2020-11-13 13:47   ` Derrick Stolee
2020-11-15 20:12     ` Matheus Tavares Bernardino
2020-11-15 21:42       ` Johannes Sixt
2020-11-16 12:37         ` Matheus Tavares Bernardino
2020-11-23 13:23           ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-11-24  2:48             ` Matheus Tavares Bernardino
2020-11-16 14:30     ` Jeff Hostetler
2020-11-17  4:53       ` Elijah Newren
2020-11-16 13:58 ` [PATCH v2] " Matheus Tavares
2021-02-17 21:02   ` [RFC PATCH 0/7] add/rm: honor sparse checkout and warn on sparse paths Matheus Tavares
2021-02-17 21:02     ` [RFC PATCH 1/7] add --chmod: don't update index when --dry-run is used Matheus Tavares
2021-02-17 21:45       ` Junio C Hamano
2021-02-18  1:33         ` Matheus Tavares
2021-02-17 21:02     ` [RFC PATCH 2/7] add: include magic part of pathspec on --refresh error Matheus Tavares
2021-02-17 22:20       ` Junio C Hamano
2021-02-17 21:02     ` [RFC PATCH 3/7] t3705: add tests for `git add` in sparse checkouts Matheus Tavares
2021-02-17 23:01       ` Junio C Hamano
2021-02-17 23:22         ` Eric Sunshine
2021-02-17 23:34           ` Junio C Hamano
2021-02-18  3:11           ` Matheus Tavares Bernardino
2021-02-18  3:07         ` Matheus Tavares Bernardino
2021-02-18 14:38           ` Matheus Tavares
2021-02-18 19:05             ` Junio C Hamano
2021-02-18 19:02           ` Junio C Hamano
2021-02-22 18:53         ` Elijah Newren
2021-02-17 21:02     ` [RFC PATCH 4/7] add: make --chmod and --renormalize honor " Matheus Tavares
2021-02-17 21:02     ` [RFC PATCH 5/7] pathspec: allow to ignore SKIP_WORKTREE entries on index matching Matheus Tavares
2021-02-17 21:02     ` [RFC PATCH 6/7] add: warn when pathspec only matches SKIP_WORKTREE entries Matheus Tavares
2021-02-19  0:34       ` Junio C Hamano
2021-02-19 17:11         ` Matheus Tavares Bernardino
2021-02-17 21:02     ` [RFC PATCH 7/7] rm: honor sparse checkout patterns Matheus Tavares
2021-02-22 18:57     ` [RFC PATCH 0/7] add/rm: honor sparse checkout and warn on sparse paths Elijah Newren
2021-02-24  4:05     ` [PATCH v2 " Matheus Tavares
2021-02-24  4:05       ` [PATCH v2 1/7] add: include magic part of pathspec on --refresh error Matheus Tavares
2021-02-24  4:05       ` [PATCH v2 2/7] t3705: add tests for `git add` in sparse checkouts Matheus Tavares
2021-02-24  5:15         ` Elijah Newren
2021-02-24  4:05       ` [PATCH v2 3/7] add: make --chmod and --renormalize honor " Matheus Tavares
2021-02-24  4:05       ` [PATCH v2 4/7] pathspec: allow to ignore SKIP_WORKTREE entries on index matching Matheus Tavares
2021-02-24  5:23         ` Elijah Newren
2021-02-24  4:05       ` [PATCH v2 5/7] refresh_index(): add REFRESH_DONT_MARK_SPARSE_MATCHES flag Matheus Tavares
2021-02-24  4:05       ` [PATCH v2 6/7] add: warn when pathspec only matches SKIP_WORKTREE entries Matheus Tavares
2021-02-24  6:50         ` Elijah Newren
2021-02-24 15:33           ` Matheus Tavares
2021-03-04 15:23           ` Matheus Tavares
2021-03-04 17:21             ` Elijah Newren
2021-03-04 21:03               ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-04 22:48                 ` Elijah Newren
2021-03-04 21:26               ` Matheus Tavares Bernardino
2021-02-24  4:05       ` [PATCH v2 7/7] rm: honor sparse checkout patterns Matheus Tavares
2021-02-24  6:59         ` Elijah Newren
2021-02-24  7:05       ` [PATCH v2 0/7] add/rm: honor sparse checkout and warn on sparse paths Elijah Newren
2021-03-12 22:47       ` [PATCH v3 " Matheus Tavares
2021-03-12 22:47         ` [PATCH v3 1/7] add: include magic part of pathspec on --refresh error Matheus Tavares
2021-03-12 22:47         ` [PATCH v3 2/7] t3705: add tests for `git add` in sparse checkouts Matheus Tavares
2021-03-23 20:00           ` Derrick Stolee
2021-03-12 22:47         ` [PATCH v3 3/7] add: make --chmod and --renormalize honor " Matheus Tavares
2021-03-12 22:47         ` [PATCH v3 4/7] pathspec: allow to ignore SKIP_WORKTREE entries on index matching Matheus Tavares
2021-03-12 22:48         ` [PATCH v3 5/7] refresh_index(): add REFRESH_DONT_MARK_SPARSE_MATCHES flag Matheus Tavares
2021-03-18 23:45           ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-19  0:00             ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2021-03-19 12:23               ` Matheus Tavares Bernardino
2021-03-19 16:05                 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-30 18:51                   ` Matheus Tavares Bernardino
2021-03-31  9:14                     ` Elijah Newren
2021-03-12 22:48         ` [PATCH v3 6/7] add: warn when asked to update SKIP_WORKTREE entries Matheus Tavares
2021-03-12 22:48         ` [PATCH v3 7/7] rm: honor sparse checkout patterns Matheus Tavares
2021-03-21 23:03           ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-03-22  1:08             ` Matheus Tavares Bernardino
2021-03-23 20:47           ` Derrick Stolee
2021-03-13  7:07         ` [PATCH v3 0/7] add/rm: honor sparse checkout and warn on sparse paths Elijah Newren
2021-04-08 20:41         ` [PATCH v4 " Matheus Tavares
2021-04-08 20:41           ` [PATCH v4 1/7] add: include magic part of pathspec on --refresh error Matheus Tavares
2021-04-08 20:41           ` [PATCH v4 2/7] t3705: add tests for `git add` in sparse checkouts Matheus Tavares
2021-04-14 16:39             ` Derrick Stolee
2021-04-08 20:41           ` [PATCH v4 3/7] add: make --chmod and --renormalize honor " Matheus Tavares
2021-04-08 20:41           ` [PATCH v4 4/7] pathspec: allow to ignore SKIP_WORKTREE entries on index matching Matheus Tavares
2021-04-08 20:41           ` [PATCH v4 5/7] refresh_index(): add flag to ignore SKIP_WORKTREE entries Matheus Tavares
2021-04-08 20:41           ` [PATCH v4 6/7] add: warn when asked to update " Matheus Tavares
2021-04-08 20:41           ` [PATCH v4 7/7] rm: honor sparse checkout patterns Matheus Tavares
2021-04-14 16:36           ` [PATCH v4 0/7] add/rm: honor sparse checkout and warn on sparse paths Elijah Newren
2021-04-14 18:04             ` Matheus Tavares Bernardino
2021-04-16 21:33           ` Junio C Hamano
2021-04-16 23:17             ` Elijah Newren
2020-11-16 20:14 ` [PATCH] rm: honor sparse checkout patterns Junio C Hamano
2020-11-17  5:20   ` Elijah Newren
2020-11-20 17:06     ` Elijah Newren
2020-12-31 20:03       ` sparse-checkout questions and proposals [Was: Re: [PATCH] rm: honor sparse checkout patterns] Elijah Newren
2021-01-04  3:02         ` Derrick Stolee
2021-01-06 19:15           ` Elijah Newren
2021-01-07 12:53             ` Derrick Stolee
2021-01-07 17:36               ` Elijah Newren

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