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From: Tim Uckun <timuckun@gmail.com>
To: Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk>
Cc: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>,
	Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>, Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: can anybody explain the following to a git noob?
Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 20:03:56 +1200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <855e4dcf0905230103q33508f0eh3aa2838ee71e0a81@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.0905221259330.27232@reaper.quantumfyre.co.uk>

> What's in the subdirectory?  Is it empty?  If so, that would explain what
> you are seeing.  Git doesn't track directories - so an empty directory is
> always treated as an untracked file.

The directories are not empty. They contain various tests (unit tests,
integration tests etc).

>
> I don't know if mercurial tracks directories, if it does, then this would
> explain why it behaves diffently to git.
>

That might be the reason.

I am just baffled. I have run that script many times and it always
turns out the same. For example on one run I removed all the .git
directories in all the subdirectories to see if I would get different
results but it didn't help (git mv worked but the messed up
directories remained).

I also tried renaming other directories and similar things happen.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-23  8:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-22  3:46 can anybody explain the following to a git noob? Tim Uckun
2009-05-22  5:02 ` Avery Pennarun
2009-05-22  5:44   ` Tim Uckun
2009-05-22  9:35     ` Andreas Ericsson
2009-05-22 10:35       ` Tim Uckun
2009-05-22 10:44         ` Johannes Sixt
2009-05-22 11:36           ` Tim Uckun
2009-05-22 12:04             ` Julian Phillips
2009-05-23  8:03               ` Tim Uckun [this message]
2009-05-22 12:22             ` Andreas Ericsson
2009-05-22 17:33             ` Daniel Barkalow
2009-05-23  8:21               ` Tim Uckun
2009-05-25 11:10                 ` Heiko Voigt
2009-05-25 12:52                   ` Tim Uckun
2009-05-22 11:03     ` Sitaram Chamarty
2009-05-22 13:36 ` Dan Loewenherz

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