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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Adam Dinwoodie <adam@dinwoodie.org>,
	David Turner <dturner@twitter.com>,
	David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] merge-recursive: ignore_case shouldn't reject intentional removals
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 12:40:28 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq4lpgfkyb.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171124195901.2581-1-newren@gmail.com> (Elijah Newren's message of "Fri, 24 Nov 2017 11:59:01 -0800")

Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> writes:

> In commit ae352c7f3 (merge-recursive.c: fix case-changing merge bug,
> 2014-05-01), it was observed that removing files could be problematic on
> case insensitive file systems, because we could end up removing files
> that differed in case only rather than deleting the intended file --
> something that happened when files were renamed on one branch in a way
> that differed only in case.  To avoid that problem, that commit added
> logic to avoid removing files other than the one intended, rejecting the
> removal if the files differed only in case.
>
> Unfortunately, the logic it used didn't fully implement that condition as
> stated above...
>
> If that description leaves more questions than answers, we may need to
> augment the above commit message with the following explanation...
> ...
>  merge-recursive.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

As a fix, this sorely wants something new in t/ directory.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-11-27  3:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-24 19:59 [PATCH] merge-recursive: ignore_case shouldn't reject intentional removals Elijah Newren
2017-11-24 20:04 ` Eric Sunshine
2017-11-24 20:29   ` Elijah Newren
2017-11-25  3:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-11-25 22:35   ` Elijah Newren
2017-11-26  2:32     ` Junio C Hamano
2017-11-27  3:40 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2017-11-27 16:40   ` Elijah Newren
2017-11-27 23:39     ` Junio C Hamano
2017-11-28  1:02       ` Elijah Newren
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2019-03-04 23:07 Woody Woodman
2019-03-06 14:23 ` Johannes Schindelin

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