difftool: don't overwrite modified files

After running the user's diff tool, git-difftool will copy any files
that differ between the working tree and the temporary tree.  This is
useful when the user edits the file in their diff tool but is wrong if
they edit the working tree file while examining the diff.

Instead of copying unconditionally when the files differ, create and
index from the working tree files and only copy the temporary file back
if it was modified and the working tree file was not.  If both files
have been modified, print a warning and exit with an error.

Note that we cannot use an existing index in git-difftool since those
contain the modified files that need to be checked out but here we are
looking at those files which are copied from the working tree and not
checked out.  These are precisely the files which are not in the
existing indices.

Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 30 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/t/t7800-difftool.sh b/t/t7800-difftool.sh
index e6a16cd..017f55a 100755
--- a/t/t7800-difftool.sh
+++ b/t/t7800-difftool.sh
@@ -377,4 +377,34 @@ test_expect_success PERL,SYMLINKS 'difftool --dir-diff --symlink without unstage
 	test_cmp actual expect
 '
 
+write_script modify-file <<\EOF
+echo "new content" >file
+EOF
+
+test_expect_success PERL 'difftool --no-symlinks does not overwrite working tree file ' '
+	echo "orig content" >file &&
+	git difftool --dir-diff --no-symlinks --extcmd "$(pwd)/modify-file" branch &&
+	echo "new content" >expect &&
+	test_cmp expect file
+'
+
+write_script modify-both-files <<\EOF
+echo "wt content" >file &&
+echo "tmp content" >"$2/file" &&
+echo "$2" >tmpdir
+EOF
+
+test_expect_success PERL 'difftool --no-symlinks detects conflict ' '
+	(
+		TMPDIR=$TRASH_DIRECTORY &&
+		export TMPDIR &&
+		echo "orig content" >file &&
+		test_must_fail git difftool --dir-diff --no-symlinks --extcmd "$(pwd)/modify-both-files" branch &&
+		echo "wt content" >expect &&
+		test_cmp expect file &&
+		echo "tmp content" >expect &&
+		test_cmp expect "$(cat tmpdir)/file"
+	)
+'
+
 test_done