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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: "Stéphane Corlosquet" <scorlosquet@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Tracked files become untracked in some obscure scenario
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2011 20:51:25 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110810025125.GA8554@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGR+nnFM+Pr29h4POarx5rQdrTuMvtwwZLwVPZuChSDKQjLg4g@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 03:59:08PM -0400, Stéphane Corlosquet wrote:

> I'm encountering a very strange bug where some directory containing
> one file becomes untracked when it should be tracked. I originally
> found this bug in a bigger repository, but I isolated the culprit
> files into a small tarball which you can download from
> http://files.openspring.net/tmp/gitbug-20110809.tgz
> 
> This bug occurs on the following three configs:
> Mac OS X Snow Leopard with git 1.7.4.1
> Mac OS X Snow Leopard with git 1.7.5
> Mac OS X Lion with git 1.7.4.4
> I could not reproduce on Ubuntu.

I suspect this may be another case of this bug:

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/173612/focus=174634

Does the patch posted in that thread[1] make the problem go away?

-Peff

[1] The actual patch is in:

    http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/174636

      reply	other threads:[~2011-08-10  2:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-09 19:59 Tracked files become untracked in some obscure scenario Stéphane Corlosquet
2011-08-10  2:51 ` Jeff King [this message]

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