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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Kevin Brannen <kbrannen@corp.hrsmart.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bug in merge
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2012 01:23:12 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120605052312.GA16958@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FCCE306.9020600@corp.hrsmart.com>

On Mon, Jun 04, 2012 at 11:32:06AM -0500, Kevin Brannen wrote:

> I believe I've just found a bug in "merge", specifically in the
> "recursive" strategy. (Or really, here's another example of and
> hopefully more info on a known bug.) Oh, this is with 1.7.2.3, the
> latest I'm able to use on this machine.
> [...]
> So I think the problem is just too many renames/moves of the same
> object and when "recursive" descends the tree, it just can't handle
> that correctly -- or that's my guess. :)

There were a large number of merge-recursive corner cases fixed,
especially around renames, in the 1.7.3, 1.7.4, and 1.7.7 versions of
git. I do not recall specially a bug that matches your description, but
I would not be surprised at all if was already fixed by existing
changes.

Can you try to reproduce with a more recent version of git (preferably
the current "master" branch)?

-Peff

      reply	other threads:[~2012-06-05  5:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-04 16:32 bug in merge Kevin Brannen
2012-06-05  5:23 ` Jeff King [this message]

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