Subject: Re: en/present-despite-skipped (Re: What's cooking in git.git (Feb 2022, #05; Thu, 17))

From: Jonathan Nieder <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2022 15:52:10 -0800

Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Junio C Hamano wrote:

>> * en/present-despite-skipped (2022-01-14) 6 commits
>>   (merged to 'next' on 2022-02-15 at 960873fdad)
>>  + Accelerate clear_skip_worktree_from_present_files() by caching
>>  + Update documentation related to sparsity and the skip-worktree bit
>>  + repo_read_index: clear SKIP_WORKTREE bit from files present in worktree
>>  + unpack-trees: fix accidental loss of user changes
>>  + t1011: add testcase demonstrating accidental loss of user modifications
>>  + Merge branch 'vd/sparse-clean-etc' into en/present-despite-skipped
>>
>>  In sparse-checkouts, files mis-marked as missing from the working tree
>>  could lead to later problems.  Such files were hard to discover, and
>>  harder to correct.  Automatically detecting and correcting the marking
>>  of such files has been added to avoid these problems.
>>
>>  Will merge to 'master'.
>>  cf. <[email-masked]>
>>  source: <[email-masked]>
>
> I'd recommend holding off on merging to 'master' for now, until we
> figure out what to do about
> https://lore.kernel.org/git/[email-masked]/. Hopefully that
> won't take long.

Since as discussed there this isn't a regression for existing users of
git 'master', I see no reason to hold off on merging to 'master'.
Thanks for your patient help.

Sincerely,
Jonathan