git rm: refresh index before up-to-date check

Since "git rm" is supposed to be porcelain, we should convince it to
be user friendly by refreshing the index itself.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>

diff --git a/builtin-rm.c b/builtin-rm.c
index 50ae6d54011fad89387f0d56ce7a4591d07874f3..e06640cf8d3418cbbe177b8fdcdccd19e0f3379f 100644 (file)
--- a/builtin-rm.c
+++ b/builtin-rm.c
@@ -137,6 +137,7 @@ int cmd_rm(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 
        if (read_cache() < 0)
                die("index file corrupt");
+       refresh_cache(REFRESH_QUIET);
 
        pathspec = get_pathspec(prefix, argv);
        seen = NULL;

diff --git a/t/t3600-rm.sh b/t/t3600-rm.sh
index 558c80edbfa5c0c90566a0be94723e2783d6df9b..66aca99fd32c6b98f5e6e34a3cf7b096b3e236cf 100755 (executable)
--- a/t/t3600-rm.sh
+++ b/t/t3600-rm.sh
@@ -219,14 +219,23 @@ test_expect_success 'Remove nonexistent file returns nonzero exit status' '
 
 test_expect_success 'Call "rm" from outside the work tree' '
        mkdir repo &&
-       cd repo &&
-       git init &&
-       echo something > somefile &&
-       git add somefile &&
-       git commit -m "add a file" &&
-       (cd .. &&
-        git --git-dir=repo/.git --work-tree=repo rm somefile) &&
-       test_must_fail git ls-files --error-unmatch somefile
+       (cd repo &&
+        git init &&
+        echo something > somefile &&
+        git add somefile &&
+        git commit -m "add a file" &&
+        (cd .. &&
+         git --git-dir=repo/.git --work-tree=repo rm somefile) &&
+       test_must_fail git ls-files --error-unmatch somefile)
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'refresh index before checking if it is up-to-date' '
+
+       git reset --hard &&
+       test-chmtime -86400 frotz/nitfol &&
+       git rm frotz/nitfol &&
+       test ! -f frotz/nitfol
+
 '
 
 test_done