From ea5070c91f23e41a88dec48d2f8d96444c2d647a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jens Lehmann Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 22:10:41 +0200 Subject: Teach read-tree the -n|--dry-run option The option can be used to check if read-tree with the same set of other options like "-m" and "-u" would succeed without actually changing either the index or the working tree. The relevant tests in the t10?? range were extended to do a read-tree -n before the real read-tree to make sure neither the index nor any local files were changed with -n and the same exit code as without -n is returned. The helper functions added for that purpose reside in the new t/lib-read-tree.sh file. The only exception is #13 in t1004 ("unlinking an un-unlink-able symlink"). As this is an issue of wrong directory permissions it is not detected with -n. Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/git-read-tree.txt | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/git-read-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-read-tree.txt index 26fdadc642..46a96f2313 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-read-tree.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-read-tree.txt @@ -53,6 +53,11 @@ OPTIONS trees that are not directly related to the current working tree status into a temporary index file. +-n:: +--dry-run:: + Check if the command would error out, without updating the index + nor the files in the working tree for real. + -v:: Show the progress of checking files out. -- cgit v1.3