It is possible to delete a committed file from the index and then add it
as intent-to-add. After `git reset HEAD`, the file should be identical
in the index and HEAD. This patch provides the desired behavior even
when the file is empty in the index.

Signed-off-by: Varun Naik <[email protected]>
---
My first patch!

According to an old thread on the mailing list[0], this issue is known,
but it looks like people overlooked the fix that I'm making. Basically,
this one line causes diff-lib.c:do_oneway_diff() to call show_modified()
instead of diff_index_show_file() for ita files.

An alternative to the last line of the test code is running `git status
--porcelain=v2` and then inspecting the output. I can adjust that if
necessary.

Unfortunately, "restore" has a similar problem, but it follows a
different code path into read-cache.c rather than diff-lib.c, and there
does not seem to be a similar one-line fix.

[0]: 
https://public-inbox.org/git/CACsJy8Bov1asw+_J_fbhKqigM==xnpi8itdgkhibkyvch4p...@mail.gmail.com/

 builtin/reset.c  |  1 +
 t/t7102-reset.sh | 11 +++++++++++
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/builtin/reset.c b/builtin/reset.c
index 26ef9a7bd0..47a088f4b7 100644
--- a/builtin/reset.c
+++ b/builtin/reset.c
@@ -163,6 +163,7 @@ static int read_from_tree(const struct pathspec *pathspec,
        opt.format_callback_data = &intent_to_add;
        opt.flags.override_submodule_config = 1;
        opt.repo = the_repository;
+       opt.ita_invisible_in_index = 1;
 
        if (do_diff_cache(tree_oid, &opt))
                return 1;
diff --git a/t/t7102-reset.sh b/t/t7102-reset.sh
index 97be0d968d..250fc1c890 100755
--- a/t/t7102-reset.sh
+++ b/t/t7102-reset.sh
@@ -566,4 +566,15 @@ test_expect_success 'reset --mixed sets up work tree' '
        test_must_be_empty actual
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'reset --mixed removes deleted intent-to-add file from 
index' '
+       echo "nonempty" >nonempty &&
+       >empty &&
+       git add nonempty empty &&
+       git commit -m "create files to be deleted" &&
+       git rm --cached nonempty empty &&
+       git add -N nonempty empty &&
+       git reset HEAD nonempty empty &&
+       git diff --staged --exit-code
+'
+
 test_done
-- 
2.22.0

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