sparse-checkout: avoid writing entries with the skip-worktree bit

When using the sparse-checkout feature git should not write to the working
directory for files with the skip-worktree bit on.  With the skip-worktree
bit on the file may or may not be in the working directory and if it is
not we don't want or need to create it by calling checkout_entry.

There are two callers of checkout_target.  Both of which check that the
file does not exist before calling checkout_target.  load_current which
make a call to lstat right before calling checkout_target and
check_preimage which will only run checkout_taret it stat_ret is less than
zero.  It sets stat_ret to zero and only if !stat->cached will it lstat
the file and set stat_ret to something other than zero.

This patch checks if skip-worktree bit is on in checkout_target and just
returns so that the entry doesn't not end up in the working directory.
This is so that apply will not create a file in the working directory,
then update the index but not keep the working directory up to date with
the changes that happened in the index.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Willford <[email protected]>

Author: Kevin Willford

apply.c

@@ -3415,6 +3415,24 @@ static int checkout_target(struct index_state *istate,
 {
 	struct checkout costate = CHECKOUT_INIT;
 
+	/*
+	 * Do not checkout the entry if the skipworktree bit is set
+	 *
+	 * Both callers of this method (check_preimage and load_current)
+	 * check for the existance of the file before calling this
+	 * method so we know that the file doesn't exist at this point
+	 * and we don't need to perform that check again here.
+	 * We just need to check the skip-worktree and return.
+	 *
+	 * This is to prevent git from creating a file in the
+	 * working directory that has the skip-worktree bit on,
+	 * then updating the index from the patch and not keeping
+	 * the working directory version up to date with what it
+	 * changed the index version to be.
+	 */
+	if (ce_skip_worktree(ce))
+		return 0;
+
 	costate.refresh_cache = 1;
 	costate.istate = istate;
 	if (checkout_entry(ce, &costate, NULL, NULL) ||