From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
To: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>,
Ben Peart <benpeart@microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] status: add a failing test showing a core.untrackedCache bug
Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2017 18:26:06 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACsJy8B1FNpq-AYJdcs_gVOxdPSnh-kNaeVykLSSDL1+EW9YjA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171222140032.21180-1-avarab@gmail.com>
On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 9:00 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
<avarab@gmail.com> wrote:
> The untracked cache gets confused when a directory is swapped out for
> a symlink to another directory. Whatever files are inside the target
> of the symlink will be incorrectly shown as untracked. This issue does
> not happen if the symlink links to another file, only if it links to
> another directory.
Sounds about right (I completely forgot about dir symlinks). Since
I've been away for some time and have not caught up (probably cannot)
with the mailing list yet, is anyone working on this? It may be
easiest to just detect symlinksand disable the cache for now.
--
Duy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-25 11:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-22 14:00 [PATCH] status: add a failing test showing a core.untrackedCache bug Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-12-25 11:26 ` Duy Nguyen [this message]
2017-12-25 18:45 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-12-26 10:47 ` Duy Nguyen
2017-12-27 10:25 ` Duy Nguyen
2017-12-27 11:28 ` [PATCH 3/1] update-index doc: note a fixed bug in the untracked cache Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-12-27 18:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-12-27 17:50 ` [PATCH] status: add a failing test showing a core.untrackedCache bug Eric Sunshine
2017-12-27 18:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-12-27 18:50 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-12-28 6:10 ` Duy Nguyen
2017-12-28 18:34 ` Junio C Hamano
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