user-manual: clean up fast-forward and dangling-objects sections

diff --git a/read-cache.c b/read-cache.c
index 7a104e351263ee47dc51bcca2ce2761fbd7f5092..6339a278da1ae1b323b5abf7d2604c7afdfde4e4 100644 (file)
--- a/read-cache.c
+++ b/read-cache.c
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ static int ce_compare_data(struct cache_entry *ce, struct stat *st)
        return match;
 }
 
-static int ce_compare_link(struct cache_entry *ce, unsigned long expected_size)
+static int ce_compare_link(struct cache_entry *ce, size_t expected_size)
 {
        int match = -1;
        char *target;
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ static int ce_modified_check_fs(struct cache_entry *ce, struct stat *st)
                        return DATA_CHANGED;
                break;
        case S_IFLNK:
-               if (ce_compare_link(ce, st->st_size))
+               if (ce_compare_link(ce, xsize_t(st->st_size)))
                        return DATA_CHANGED;
                break;
        default:
@@ -125,7 +125,9 @@ static int ce_match_stat_basic(struct cache_entry *ce, struct stat *st)
                        changed |= MODE_CHANGED;
                break;
        case S_IFLNK:
-               changed |= !S_ISLNK(st->st_mode) ? TYPE_CHANGED : 0;
+               if (!S_ISLNK(st->st_mode) &&
+                   (has_symlinks || !S_ISREG(st->st_mode)))
+                       changed |= TYPE_CHANGED;
                break;
        default:
                die("internal error: ce_mode is %o", ntohl(ce->ce_mode));
@@ -344,11 +346,11 @@ int add_file_to_index(const char *path, int verbose)
        ce->ce_flags = htons(namelen);
        fill_stat_cache_info(ce, &st);
 
-       if (trust_executable_bit)
+       if (trust_executable_bit && has_symlinks)
                ce->ce_mode = create_ce_mode(st.st_mode);
        else {
-               /* If there is an existing entry, pick the mode bits
-                * from it, otherwise assume unexecutable.
+               /* If there is an existing entry, pick the mode bits and type
+                * from it, otherwise assume unexecutable regular file.
                 */
                struct cache_entry *ent;
                int pos = cache_name_pos(path, namelen);
@@ -795,7 +797,7 @@ int read_cache_from(const char *path)
        }
 
        if (!fstat(fd, &st)) {
-               cache_mmap_size = st.st_size;
+               cache_mmap_size = xsize_t(st.st_size);
                errno = EINVAL;
                if (cache_mmap_size >= sizeof(struct cache_header) + 20)
                        cache_mmap = xmmap(NULL, cache_mmap_size, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE, fd, 0);