Subject: [PATCH 2/2] merge-ours: do not use cmd_*() as a subroutine

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 13:06:04 +0900

The call to cmd_diff_index() "git merge-ours" makes has been working
by accident that the function did not call exit(3), and the caller
exited almost immediately after making a call, but it sets a bad
precedent for people to cut and paste.

For finding out if the index exactly matches the HEAD (or a given
tree-ish), there is index_differs_from() which is exactly written
for that purpose.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
---
 builtin/merge-ours.c | 16 +++++++---------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/builtin/merge-ours.c b/builtin/merge-ours.c
index 684411694f..beb0623d56 100644
--- a/builtin/merge-ours.c
+++ b/builtin/merge-ours.c
@@ -9,26 +9,24 @@
  */
 #include "git-compat-util.h"
 #include "builtin.h"
+#include "diff.h"
 
 static const char builtin_merge_ours_usage[] =
 	"git merge-ours <base>... -- HEAD <remote>...";
 
-static const char *diff_index_args[] = {
-	"diff-index", "--quiet", "--cached", "HEAD", "--", NULL
-};
-#define NARGS (ARRAY_SIZE(diff_index_args) - 1)
-
 int cmd_merge_ours(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 {
 	if (argc == 2 && !strcmp(argv[1], "-h"))
 		usage(builtin_merge_ours_usage);
 
 	/*
-	 * We need to exit with 2 if the index does not match our HEAD tree,
-	 * because the current index is what we will be committing as the
-	 * merge result.
+	 * The contents of the current index becomes the tree we
+	 * commit.  The index must match HEAD, or this merge cannot go
+	 * through.
 	 */
-	if (cmd_diff_index(NARGS, diff_index_args, prefix))
+	if (read_cache() < 0)
+		die_errno("read_cache failed");
+	if (index_differs_from("HEAD", 0, 0))
 		exit(2);
 	exit(0);
 }
-- 
2.15.0-rc0-203-g4c8d0e28b1