I have found many uses for the feature that lets a pre-commit hook stage
changes in the index that will be included in the commit. But now I seem
to have found a bug in the support for that, involving partial commits.
It seems that, after a partial commit in which the pre-commit hook
stages a modification of a file, the index is is left without that
staged change. This only occurs with "git commit $file", not "git commit -a".
joey@darkstar:~/tmp/a>ls
joey@darkstar:~/tmp/a>date > foo
joey@darkstar:~/tmp/a>git add foo
joey@darkstar:~/tmp/a>git commit -m "added regular file foo"
[master 79d0f1d] added regular file foo
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
create mode 100644 foo
joey@darkstar:~/tmp/a>mv ~/pre-commit .git/hooks/
joey@darkstar:~/tmp/a>cat > .git/hooks/pre-commit
#!/bin/sh
ln -vsf /etc/passwd foo
git add foo
joey@darkstar:~/tmp/a>date > foo
joey@darkstar:~/tmp/a>git commit foo -m update
‘foo’ -> ‘/etc/passwd’
[master efa9f67] update
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
rewrite foo (100%)
mode change 100644 => 120000
So, the pre-commit hook replaced file foo with a symlink, and staged it,
and we can see from the commit summary that was correctly included
in the commit. But, look here:
joey@darkstar:~/tmp/a>git status
On branch master
Changes to be committed:
(use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage)
typechange: foo
Changes not staged for commit:
(use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
(use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)
typechange: foo
builtin/commit.c has a long comment that talks about a false index which
is set up and used during a partial commit. The pre-commit hook is run
using this false index, and the commit is generated from it. I guess the
bug involves the real index not being updated afterwards to reflect the
changes made to the false index.
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see shy jo, resending a mail that vger accepted yesterday but has still
not posted
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