diff-index: keep the original index intact

When comparing the index and a tree, we used to read the contents of the
tree into stage #1 of the index and compared them with stage #0.  In order
not to lose sight of entries originally unmerged in the index, we hoisted
them to stage #3 before reading the tree.

Commit d1f2d7e (Make run_diff_index() use unpack_trees(), not read_tree(),
2008-01-19) changed all this.  These days, we instead use unpack_trees()
API to traverse the tree and compare the contents with the index, without
modifying the index at all.  There is no reason to hoist the unmerged
entries to stage #3 anymore.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/diff-lib.c b/diff-lib.c
index ad5b6ca..2a82dac 100644 (file)
--- a/diff-lib.c
+++ b/diff-lib.c
@@ -309,22 +309,6 @@ static int show_modified(struct rev_info *revs,
 }
 
 /*
- * This turns all merge entries into "stage 3". That guarantees that
- * when we read in the new tree (into "stage 1"), we won't lose sight
- * of the fact that we had unmerged entries.
- */
-static void mark_merge_entries(void)
-{
-       int i;
-       for (i = 0; i < active_nr; i++) {
-               struct cache_entry *ce = active_cache[i];
-               if (!ce_stage(ce))
-                       continue;
-               ce->ce_flags |= CE_STAGEMASK;
-       }
-}
-
-/*
  * This gets a mix of an existing index and a tree, one pathname entry
  * at a time. The index entry may be a single stage-0 one, but it could
  * also be multiple unmerged entries (in which case idx_pos/idx_nr will
@@ -435,8 +419,6 @@ int run_diff_index(struct rev_info *revs, int cached)
        struct unpack_trees_options opts;
        struct tree_desc t;
 
-       mark_merge_entries();
-
        ent = revs->pending.objects[0].item;
        tree_name = revs->pending.objects[0].name;
        tree = parse_tree_indirect(ent->sha1);