"Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@xxxxxxxxx>
writes:
> From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx>
>
> In `run_diff_files()`, files that have been staged with the intention to
> add are queued without a valid OID in the `diff_filepair`.
>
> When the output mode is, say, `DIFF_FORMAT_PATCH`, the
> `diff_fill_oid_info()` function, called from `run_diff()`, will remedy
> that situation by reading the file contents from disk.
The above is true. What do we do for a path that is actually added
to the index but is stat-dirty or actually modified in the working
tree when we are giving the raw output? Don't we give 0{40} to mean
"we dunno---you go look at the working tree"? I think we should do
the same for i-t-a file wrt the object name. In both cases, the
index does not know what the actual object name is, and we do not
want to run the index_path() and write out a new object in the
object database.
Using the status letter 'A' would also be appropriate, as we would
show "new file ..." in the --patch output in this case, which would
be consistent.
