write-tree --ignore-cache-tree

This allows you to discard the cache-tree information before writing the
tree out of the index (i.e. it always recomputes the tree object names for
all the subtrees).

This is only useful as a debug option, so I did not bother documenting it.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/builtin-write-tree.c b/builtin-write-tree.c
index 9d64050..3a24ce8 100644
--- a/builtin-write-tree.c
+++ b/builtin-write-tree.c
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ static const char write_tree_usage[] =
 
 int cmd_write_tree(int argc, const char **argv, const char *unused_prefix)
 {
-	int missing_ok = 0, ret;
+	int flags = 0, ret;
 	const char *prefix = NULL;
 	unsigned char sha1[20];
 	const char *me = "git-write-tree";
@@ -22,9 +22,15 @@ int cmd_write_tree(int argc, const char **argv, const char *unused_prefix)
 	while (1 < argc) {
 		const char *arg = argv[1];
 		if (!strcmp(arg, "--missing-ok"))
-			missing_ok = 1;
+			flags |= WRITE_TREE_MISSING_OK;
 		else if (!prefixcmp(arg, "--prefix="))
 			prefix = arg + 9;
+		else if (!prefixcmp(arg, "--ignore-cache-tree"))
+			/*
+			 * This is only useful for debugging, so I
+			 * do not bother documenting it.
+			 */
+			flags |= WRITE_TREE_IGNORE_CACHE_TREE;
 		else
 			usage(write_tree_usage);
 		argc--; argv++;
@@ -33,7 +39,7 @@ int cmd_write_tree(int argc, const char **argv, const char *unused_prefix)
 	if (argc > 2)
 		die("too many options");
 
-	ret = write_cache_as_tree(sha1, missing_ok, prefix);
+	ret = write_cache_as_tree(sha1, flags, prefix);
 	switch (ret) {
 	case 0:
 		printf("%s\n", sha1_to_hex(sha1));