checkout: clarify comment
The key point for the if statement is that read_tree_some did not update the entry, because either it doesn't exist in tree-ish or doesn't match the pathspec. Clarify that. Suggested-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Thomas Gummerer committed
Dec 20, 2018 at 13:48 UTC
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@@ -304,10 +304,10 @@ static int checkout_paths(const struct checkout_opts *opts,
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continue;
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if (opts->source_tree && !(ce->ce_flags & CE_UPDATE))
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/*
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- * "git checkout tree-ish -- path", but this entry
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- * is in the original index; it will not be checked
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- * out to the working tree and it does not matter
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- * if pathspec matched this entry. We will not do
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+ * "git checkout tree-ish -- path" and this entry
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+ * is in the original index, but is not in tree-ish
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+ * or does not match the pathspec; it will not be
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+ * checked out to the working tree. We will not do
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* anything to this entry at all.
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*/
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continue;