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* [BUG] git merge does not prune empty directories
@ 2008-09-24 16:32 Anders Melchiorsen
  2008-09-25 20:12 ` [PATCH] Remove empty directories in recursive merge Alex Riesen
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 10+ messages in thread
From: Anders Melchiorsen @ 2008-09-24 16:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: git

I got an empty directory left over today, and have reduced the problem
to this sequence. If I leave out the second add (so the merge is a
fast forward), the directory is removed as I would expect.

This is with Git 1.6.0.2.


    Anders



and@dylle:~$ mkdir repo ; cd repo
and@dylle:~/repo$ git init
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/and/repo/.git/
and@dylle:~/repo$ mkdir a ; date >a/b ; git add a/b ; git commit -m'Add 1'
Created initial commit 72194c7: Add 1
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 a/b
and@dylle:~/repo$ git checkout -b other
Switched to a new branch "other"
and@dylle:~/repo$ git rm a/b ; git commit -m'Remove 1'
rm 'a/b'
Created commit 9c0282c: Remove 1
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 a/b
and@dylle:~/repo$ git checkout master
Switched to branch "master"
and@dylle:~/repo$ date >c ; git add c ; git commit -m'Add 2'
Created commit 39d60d4: Add 2
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 c
and@dylle:~/repo$ git merge other
Removed a/b
Merge made by recursive.
 a/b |    1 -
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 a/b
and@dylle:~/repo$ rmdir a
and@dylle:~/repo$ rmdir a
rmdir: failed to remove `a': No such file or directory

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2008-09-24 16:32 [BUG] git merge does not prune empty directories Anders Melchiorsen
2008-09-25 20:12 ` [PATCH] Remove empty directories in recursive merge Alex Riesen
2008-09-25 20:17   ` [PATCH] Cleanup remove_path Alex Riesen
2008-09-25 20:22     ` [PATCH] Fix memleak and the implementation of remove_file in builtin-rm.c Alex Riesen
2008-09-26 15:28       ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-09-26 22:56         ` [PATCH] Add remove_path: a function to remove as much as possible of a path Alex Riesen
2008-09-26 22:59           ` [PATCH] Use remove_path from dir.c instead of own implementation Alex Riesen
2008-09-25 20:33   ` [PATCH] Remove empty directories in recursive merge Alex Riesen
2008-09-26 15:06     ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-09-26  5:58   ` Johannes Sixt

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