checkout $tree: do not throw away unchanged index entries

When we "git checkout $tree", we pull paths from $tree into
the index, and then check the resulting entries out to the
worktree. Our method for the first step is rather
heavy-handed, though; it clobbers the entire existing index
entry, even if the content is the same. This means we lose
our stat information, leading checkout_entry to later
rewrite the entire file with identical content.

Instead, let's see if we have the identical entry already in
the index, in which case we leave it in place. That lets
checkout_entry do the right thing. Our tests cover two
interesting cases:

  1. We make sure that a file which has no changes is not
     rewritten.

  2. We make sure that we do update a file that is unchanged
     in the index (versus $tree), but has working tree
     changes. We keep the old index entry, and
     checkout_entry is able to realize that our stat
     information is out of date.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>

Author: peff

builtin/checkout.c

@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ static int update_some(const unsigned char *sha1, const char *base, int baselen,
 {
 	int len;
 	struct cache_entry *ce;
+	int pos;
 
 	if (S_ISDIR(mode))
 		return READ_TREE_RECURSIVE;
@@ -79,6 +80,23 @@ static int update_some(const unsigned char *sha1, const char *base, int baselen,
 	ce->ce_flags = create_ce_flags(0) | CE_UPDATE;
 	ce->ce_namelen = len;
 	ce->ce_mode = create_ce_mode(mode);
+
+	/*
+	 * If the entry is the same as the current index, we can leave the old
+	 * entry in place. Whether it is UPTODATE or not, checkout_entry will
+	 * do the right thing.
+	 */
+	pos = cache_name_pos(ce->name, ce->ce_namelen);
+	if (pos >= 0) {
+		struct cache_entry *old = active_cache[pos];
+		if (ce->ce_mode == old->ce_mode &&
+		    !hashcmp(ce->sha1, old->sha1)) {
+			old->ce_flags |= CE_UPDATE;
+			free(ce);
+			return 0;
+		}
+	}
+
 	add_cache_entry(ce, ADD_CACHE_OK_TO_ADD | ADD_CACHE_OK_TO_REPLACE);
 	return 0;
 }

t/t2022-checkout-paths.sh

@@ -61,4 +61,21 @@ test_expect_success 'do not touch unmerged entries matching $path but not in $tr
 	test_cmp expect.next0 actual.next0
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'do not touch files that are already up-to-date' '
+	git reset --hard &&
+	echo one >file1 &&
+	echo two >file2 &&
+	git add file1 file2 &&
+	git commit -m base &&
+	echo modified >file1 &&
+	test-chmtime =1000000000 file2 &&
+	git update-index -q --refresh &&
+	git checkout HEAD -- file1 file2 &&
+	echo one >expect &&
+	test_cmp expect file1 &&
+	echo "1000000000	file2" >expect &&
+	test-chmtime -v +0 file2 >actual &&
+	test_cmp expect actual
+'
+
 test_done