From: Victoria Dye <vdye@xxxxxxxxxx> Update 'do_oneway_diff()' to perform a 'diff_tree_oid()' on removed sparse directories, as it does for added or modified sparse directories (see 9eb00af562 (diff-lib: handle index diffs with sparse dirs, 2021-07-14)). At the moment, this update is unreachable code because 'unpack_trees()' (currently the only way 'oneway_diff()' can be called, via 'diff_cache()') will always traverse trees down to the individual removed files of a deleted sparse directory. A subsequent patch will change this to better preserve a sparse index in other uses of 'unpack_tree()', e.g. 'git reset --hard'. However, making that change without this patch would result in (among other issues) 'git status' printing only the name of a deleted sparse directory, not its contents. To avoid introducing that bug, 'do_oneway_diff()' is updated before modifying 'unpack_trees()'. Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@xxxxxxxxxx> --- diff-lib.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/diff-lib.c b/diff-lib.c index 7eb66a417aa..2edea41a234 100644 --- a/diff-lib.c +++ b/diff-lib.c @@ -466,6 +466,11 @@ static void do_oneway_diff(struct unpack_trees_options *o, * Something removed from the tree? */ if (!idx) { + if (S_ISSPARSEDIR(tree->ce_mode)) { + diff_tree_oid(&tree->oid, NULL, tree->name, &revs->diffopt); + return; + } + diff_index_show_file(revs, "-", tree, &tree->oid, 1, tree->ce_mode, 0); return; -- gitgitgadget