Re: [PATCH] merge-recursive: ignore_case shouldn't reject intentional removals

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

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.