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update-index: add tests for sparse-checkout compatibility
Introduce tests for a variety of `git update-index` use cases, including
performance scenarios. Tests are intended to exercise `update-index` with
options that change the commands interaction with the index (e.g.,
`--again`) and with files/directories inside and outside a sparse checkout
cone.
Of note is that these tests clearly establish the behavior of `git
update-index --add` with untracked, outside-of-cone files. Unlike `git add`,
which fails with an error when provided with such files, `update-index`
succeeds in adding them to the index. Additionally, the `skip-worktree` flag
is *not* automatically added to the new entry. Although this is pre-existing
behavior, there are a couple of reasons to avoid changing it in favor of
consistency with e.g. `git add`:
* `update-index` is low-level command for modifying the index; while it can
perform operations similar to those of `add`, it traditionally has fewer
"guardrails" preventing a user from doing something they may not want to
do (in this case, adding an outside-of-cone, non-`skip-worktree` file to
the index)
* `update-index` typically only exits with an error code if it is incapable
of performing an operation (e.g., if an internal function call fails);
adding a new file outside the sparse checkout definition is still a valid
operation, albeit an inadvisable one
* `update-index` does not implicitly set flags (e.g., `skip-worktree`) when
creating new index entries with `--add`; if flags need to be updated,
options like `--[no-]skip-worktree` allow a user to intentionally set them
All this to say that, while there are valid reasons to consider changing the
treatment of outside-of-cone files in `update-index`, there are also
sufficient reasons for leaving it as-is.
Co-authored-by: Derrick Stolee <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Elijah Newren <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>
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