From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: tarmigan+git@gmail.com
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: possible regression (or me abusing git) in v1.5.5
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:06:28 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vbq4grtij.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <905315640804111221k53dd7063sae5710ed690114f0@mail.gmail.com> (tarmigan+git@gmail.com's message of "Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:21:41 -0700")
tarmigan+git@gmail.com writes:
> After upgrading to v1.5.5, I noticed a change in the way that git
> treats symbolic links.
>
> Git will follow symbolic links to directories when they were added as follows
>
> $ git init
> $ mkdir foo
> $ touch foo/bar
> $ ln -s foo foo1
> $ git add foo1/
In this step "git add" adds "foo1/bar", which is a bug that is shared
between 1.5.5 and previous versions.
Recent "git add -u" after that was taught to notice this bogosity (it
actually is git-diff-* family that was fixed), and fixes it.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-11 21:07 UTC|newest]
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2008-04-11 19:21 possible regression (or me abusing git) in v1.5.5 tarmigan+git
2008-04-11 21:06 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
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