Re: Files not deleted when merging after a rename

[Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>]

Mark Desnoyer, Mon, Jan 21, 2008 20:45:07 +0100:
> Hi,
> 
> I've run across a small problem and I was wondering if I could get
> some help. I have two users A and B. They are both git-cloned from a
> common repository on a different server.
> 
> User A moves a directory:
> foo/bar/ ==> bar
> using:
> git mv foo/bar bar
> git commit
> git push
> 
> Meanwhile, user B is doing some other changes that are completely
> unrelated and has a few local commits. Now, when user B pulls from the
> repository (git pull), and returns no errors merging, the directory
> "bar" is created, but "foo/bar" is not deleted, although, it becomes
> untracked.

Directories are never tracked. It should have been deleted though.
Did it have (or still has) some untracked files in it?