+ /*
+ * This may look like it can be simplified to:
+ * return !was_tracked(o, path) && file_exists(path)
+ * but it can't. This function needs to know whether path was in
+ * the working tree due to EITHER having been tracked in the index
+ * before the merge OR having been put into the working copy and
+ * index by unpack_trees(). Due to that either-or requirement, we
+ * check the current index instead of the original one.
+ *
+ * Note that we do not need to worry about merge-recursive itself
+ * updating the index after unpack_trees() and before calling this
+ * function, because we strictly require all code paths in
+ * merge-recursive to update the working tree first and the index
+ * second. Doing otherwise would break
+ * update_file()/would_lose_untracked(); see every comment in this
+ * file which mentions "update_stages".
+ */
+ int pos = cache_name_pos(path, strlen(path));
+
+ if (pos < 0)
+ pos = -1 - pos;
+ while (pos < active_nr &&
+ !strcmp(path, active_cache[pos]->name)) {
+ /*
+ * If stage #0, it is definitely tracked.
+ * If it has stage #2 then it was tracked
+ * before this merge started. All other
+ * cases the path was not tracked.
+ */
+ switch (ce_stage(active_cache[pos])) {
+ case 0:
+ case 2:
+ return 0;
+ }
+ pos++;
+ }
+ return file_exists(path);