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From: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
To: Bruce Stephens <bruce.stephens@isode.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: Change in "git checkout" behaviour between 1.6.0.2 and 1.6.0.3
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:32:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <491B131D.2050501@drmicha.warpmail.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <80wsf9ovsp.fsf@tiny.isode.net>

Bruce Stephens venit, vidit, dixit 12.11.2008 15:36:
> The following works fine with 1.6.0.2 and before, but not 1.6.0.3 or
> later:
> 
> 	git clone -n git git-test
>         cd git-test
>         git checkout -b work v1.6.0.2
> 
> When it breaks, the error is:
> 
> 	error: Entry '.gitignore' would be overwritten by merge. Cannot merge.
> 
> I'm guessing it's a bug rather than a deliberate change?

Bisecting gives:


5521883490e85f4d973141972cf16f89a79f1979 is first bad commit
commit 5521883490e85f4d973141972cf16f89a79f1979
Author: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date:   Sun Sep 7 19:49:25 2008 -0700

    checkout: do not lose staged removal

CCing Junio...

Michael

  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-12 17:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-12 14:36 Change in "git checkout" behaviour between 1.6.0.2 and 1.6.0.3 Bruce Stephens
2008-11-12 17:32 ` Michael J Gruber [this message]
2008-11-12 17:44   ` Bruce Stephens
2008-11-12 19:15     ` Junio C Hamano
2008-11-12 19:44       ` Bruce Stephens
2008-11-12 19:52       ` Re* " Junio C Hamano
2008-11-12 17:40 ` Bruce Stephens

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