Merge branch 'ew/empty-merge-with-dirty-index-maint' into ew/empty-merge-with-dirty-index

* ew/empty-merge-with-dirty-index-maint:
  merge-recursive: avoid incorporating uncommitted changes in a merge
  move index_has_changes() from builtin/am.c to merge.c for reuse
  t6044: recursive can silently incorporate dirty changes in a merge

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/cache.h b/cache.h
index a2ec8c0..d8b975a 100644
--- a/cache.h
+++ b/cache.h
@@ -644,6 +644,15 @@ extern int write_locked_index(struct index_state *, struct lock_file *lock, unsi
 extern int discard_index(struct index_state *);
 extern void move_index_extensions(struct index_state *dst, struct index_state *src);
 extern int unmerged_index(const struct index_state *);
+
+/**
+ * Returns 1 if the index differs from HEAD, 0 otherwise. When on an unborn
+ * branch, returns 1 if there are entries in the index, 0 otherwise. If an
+ * strbuf is provided, the space-separated list of files that differ will be
+ * appended to it.
+ */
+extern int index_has_changes(struct strbuf *sb);
+
 extern int verify_path(const char *path);
 extern int strcmp_offset(const char *s1, const char *s2, size_t *first_change);
 extern int index_dir_exists(struct index_state *istate, const char *name, int namelen);