From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Shawn O. Pearce" Subject: Re: correct git merge behavior or corner case? Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 20:19:16 -0700 Message-ID: <20090420031916.GV23604@spearce.org> References: <4ac8254d0904191540j68246cd8qa36a034209d4c800@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Tuncer Ayaz X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Apr 20 05:20:58 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Lvk3v-00012g-Q3 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 20 Apr 2009 05:20:52 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752293AbZDTDTS (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Apr 2009 23:19:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751832AbZDTDTR (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Apr 2009 23:19:17 -0400 Received: from george.spearce.org ([209.20.77.23]:60459 "EHLO george.spearce.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751414AbZDTDTR (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Apr 2009 23:19:17 -0400 Received: by george.spearce.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id AC92D38211; Mon, 20 Apr 2009 03:19:16 +0000 (UTC) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4ac8254d0904191540j68246cd8qa36a034209d4c800@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Tuncer Ayaz wrote: > I have stumbled upon the following blog post via one of > the news aggegrators and wondered whether the behavior > is correct and expected or he's expecting something wrong > or doing something wrong. > > I cannot see a wrong usage pattern from what he has written. > > http://blog.teksol.info/2009/04/15/beware-of-gits-content-tracking.html > > as the author hasn't posted here after a couple of days > I decided to take his question here for at least understanding > what behavior he is experiencing. Well, the author of the blog post gave us *no* information about what he did, or what he expected. He's just showing us a diff, which we're not even sure how he created, and then complaining about Git not doing something he wanted. -- Shawn.