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 <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> --- 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