Merge branch 'jk/maint-ls-files-other' into maint

* jk/maint-ls-files-other:
  refactor handling of "other" files in ls-files and status

1 files changed, 28 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/read-cache.c b/read-cache.c
index 15e1a9d471..967f483f78 100644
--- a/read-cache.c
+++ b/read-cache.c
@@ -1485,3 +1485,31 @@ int read_index_unmerged(struct index_state *istate)
 	}
 	return unmerged;
 }
+
+/*
+ * Returns 1 if the path is an "other" path with respect to
+ * the index; that is, the path is not mentioned in the index at all,
+ * either as a file, a directory with some files in the index,
+ * or as an unmerged entry.
+ *
+ * We helpfully remove a trailing "/" from directories so that
+ * the output of read_directory can be used as-is.
+ */
+int index_name_is_other(const struct index_state *istate, const char *name,
+		int namelen)
+{
+	int pos;
+	if (namelen && name[namelen - 1] == '/')
+		namelen--;
+	pos = index_name_pos(istate, name, namelen);
+	if (0 <= pos)
+		return 0;	/* exact match */
+	pos = -pos - 1;
+	if (pos < istate->cache_nr) {
+		struct cache_entry *ce = istate->cache[pos];
+		if (ce_namelen(ce) == namelen &&
+		    !memcmp(ce->name, name, namelen))
+			return 0; /* Yup, this one exists unmerged */
+	}
+	return 1;
+}