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From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Avery Pennarun" <apenwarr@gmail.com>,
	"Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
	"David Martínez Martí" <desarrollo@gestiweb.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, deavidsedice@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Possible bug in Git
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 18:39:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201004161839.37731.trast@student.ethz.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1004160845350.15116@i5.linux-foundation.org>

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I guess the issue is that combine-diff decides that there is nothing in 
> the result that isn't in either of the sources (because there is nothing 
> at all in the result), and as such it's not "interesting" after all.

It does give me a warm and fuzzy feeling when you are devising and
discussing test cases for a bug that I believe I fixed before this
branch of the thread even began:

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/144982

:-)

[scnr]

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch

  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-16 16:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-15 10:47 Possible bug in Git David Martínez Martí
2010-04-15 12:59 ` [PATCH] combined diff: correctly handle truncated file Thomas Rast
2010-04-15 23:45 ` Possible bug in Git Avery Pennarun
2010-04-16  0:01   ` Junio C Hamano
2010-04-16  0:06     ` Avery Pennarun
2010-04-16  0:13       ` Avery Pennarun
2010-04-16  0:38         ` Jay Soffian
2010-04-16  0:45           ` Avery Pennarun
2010-04-16 15:53         ` Linus Torvalds
2010-04-16 16:39           ` Thomas Rast [this message]
2010-04-16 16:56           ` Junio C Hamano
2010-04-16 17:00             ` Thomas Rast

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