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From: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>
To: wh <microrffr@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] rebase --interactive silently overwrites ignored files
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2019 17:30:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2643a200-5356-f3bc-1715-3f34b5f19a5b@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAL_tzDGRQ4BzJ4c6QypXfBXQNQYocbKbJSBOHhBBB2TwQQPCGA@mail.gmail.com>

Hi

On 12/04/2019 00:56, wh wrote:
> I'm using git 2.20.1 from Debian. Git is usually careful not to
> overwrite untracked files, including ignored files.

Git normally overwrites ignored files, so I think in your example rebase 
-i is working as expected, I'm surprised that the am based rebase does 
not overwrite the ignored file. There has been some discussion about 
introducing 'precious' files that are ignored but protected in the same 
way as untracked files [1].

Best Wishes

Phillip

[1] https://public-inbox.org/git/20190409102649.22115-1-pclouds@gmail.com/

  But interactive
> rebase doesn't detect this (non-interactive rebase works fine).
> 
> Reproduction:
> -----
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> mkdir upstream
> cd upstream
> git init
> echo 1 >feature-1
> git add feature-1
> git commit -m "feature 1"
> 
> cd ..
> git clone upstream local
> cd local
> # write some tools for our own convenience
> echo ours >tools
> echo /tools >>.git/info/exclude
> # start working on a feature
> git checkout -b f2
> echo wip >feature-2
> git add feature-2
> git commit -m "wip"
> 
> cd ../upstream
> # official tools are available
> echo theirs >tools
> git add tools
> git commit -m "tools"
> 
> cd ../local
> git fetch ../upstream master
> 
> # this would be okay
> #git rebase FETCH_HEAD
> 
> # problem: overwrites tools silently
> GIT_EDITOR=true git rebase -i FETCH_HEAD
> 
> cat tools
> 
> -----
> 
> Expected: `git rebase -i` fails because it would have to overwrite the
> untracked "tools" file. Contents of tools file remains `ours`.
> 
> Actual: Contents of tools file becomes `theirs`.
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2019-04-12 16:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-11 23:56 [BUG] rebase --interactive silently overwrites ignored files wh
2019-04-12 16:30 ` Phillip Wood [this message]
2019-04-14  1:59   ` wh
2019-04-14 13:24     ` Phillip Wood
2019-05-02 15:45     ` Phillip Wood
2019-05-02 16:22       ` Duy Nguyen
2019-05-05  4:02       ` Junio C Hamano
2019-05-07 14:03         ` Phillip Wood

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