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From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Allow one-way tree merge to remove old files
Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 10:51:19 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vy7x41omg.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0605141040210.3866@g5.osdl.org> (Linus Torvalds's message of "Sun, 14 May 2006 10:43:50 -0700 (PDT)")

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

> For some random reason (probably just because nobody noticed), the one-way 
> merge strategy didn't mark deleted files as deleted, so if you used
>
> 	git-read-tree -m -u <newtree>
>
> it would update the files that got changed in the index, but it would not 
> delete the files that got deleted.

Good catch.  I think it is a leftover from the days we did not
have -u there; returning 0 was a way to say "there is no cache
entry resulting from this round of path-merge".

  reply	other threads:[~2006-05-14 17:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-14 17:43 Allow one-way tree merge to remove old files Linus Torvalds
2006-05-14 17:51 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2006-05-14 18:20 ` Simplify "git reset --hard" Linus Torvalds
2006-05-15  6:55   ` Junio C Hamano
2006-05-15  7:08     ` Junio C Hamano
2006-05-15  7:46       ` Junio C Hamano
2006-05-15 14:55         ` Linus Torvalds
2006-05-15 15:09           ` Linus Torvalds

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