From: Stefan Sperling <stsp@stsp.name>
Subject: Re: got diff vs .gitignore
To: Omar Polo <op@omarpolo.com>
Cc: gameoftrees@openbsd.org
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2022 17:22:11 +0100

On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 04:59:38PM +0100, Omar Polo wrote:
> just a curiosity: there's a reason to delay the ignore check after the
> lstat and not just after got_fileindex_entry_get?  My reasoning is that
> if got_fileindex_entry_get doesn't find anything then the file is not in
> the repository and we can honour the `no_ignore' flag without even
> caring to stat it.  (I'm not familiar enough with how the worktree is
> managed thought, so I'm probably missing something)

There are some status consumers which look for the NONEXISTENT status
value, such as 'got rm' (deleting a non-existent file is a no-op).
If we skip the stat call then the status walk cannot provide NONEXISTENT,
and such consumers would then have similar issues like the one you found
in 'got diff'.