[PATCH v3 1/2] add-patch: remove unnecessary NEEDSWORK comment

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The comment suggested to compare commit objects instead of string
comparison to 'HEAD' for supporting more ways of saying 'HEAD' (e.g.
'@'). However, this approach would also count a non-checked out branch
pointing to same commit as HEAD, as HEAD. This would cause confusion to
the user.

Junio described it best as[1]:

"Users may consider 'HEAD' and '@' the same and may want them to behave
the same way, but the user, when explicitly naming '$branch', means they
want to "check contents out of that OTHER thing named '$branch', not the
current branch"; it may or may not happen to be pointing at the same
commit as HEAD, but if the user meant to say "check contents out of the
current commit, (partially) reverting the local changes I have", the user
would have said HEAD.  After all, the user may not even be immediately
aware that '$branch' happens to point at the same commit as HEAD."

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqmssohu69.fsf@gitster.g/

Signed-off-by: Ghanshyam Thakkar <shyamthakkar001@xxxxxxxxx>
---
 add-patch.c | 8 --------
 1 file changed, 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/add-patch.c b/add-patch.c
index 79eda168eb..68f525b35c 100644
--- a/add-patch.c
+++ b/add-patch.c
@@ -1729,14 +1729,6 @@ int run_add_p(struct repository *r, enum add_p_mode mode,
 	if (mode == ADD_P_STASH)
 		s.mode = &patch_mode_stash;
 	else if (mode == ADD_P_RESET) {
-		/*
-		 * NEEDSWORK: Instead of comparing to the literal "HEAD",
-		 * compare the commit objects instead so that other ways of
-		 * saying the same thing (such as "@") are also handled
-		 * appropriately.
-		 *
-		 * This applies to the cases below too.
-		 */
 		if (!revision || !strcmp(revision, "HEAD"))
 			s.mode = &patch_mode_reset_head;
 		else
-- 
2.43.0





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