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From: Bill Okara <billokara@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: git mv messed up file mapping if folders contain identical files
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 16:38:11 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADsr5c_Hk34KBN06dM9Hk5HPW9-Mt3eZLMgvyes8sSgxCA-k0w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hi,

I noticed the following 'git mv' issue with:
git version 2.6.4


If there are identical files in different subfolders, 'git mv' the
root folder (and/or each file individually) will mess up the file path
mapping. that is, if having identical 'content.txt' file under
gitmvtest
    |--demo/content.txt
    |--dev/content.txt
    |--prod/content.txt

after doing the "git mv gitmvtest/resources
gitmvtest/src/main/resources", the 'git status' will show:

renamed:    gitmvtest/resources/demo/content.txt ->
gitmvtest/src/main/resources/demo/content.txt
renamed:    gitmvtest/resources/prod/content.txt ->
gitmvtest/src/main/resources/dev/content.txt            <== NOTE:
wrongly mapped the prod/content.txt to dev/content.txt
renamed:    gitmvtest/resources/dev/content.txt ->
gitmvtest/src/main/resources/prod/content.txt            <== NOTE:
wrongly mapped the dev/content.txt to prod/content.txt

I tried running 'git mv' on each file individually, got the same problem:
> git mv gitmvtest/resources/demo/content.txt gitmvtest/src/main/resources/demo/content.txt
> git mv gitmvtest/resources/dev/content.txt gitmvtest/src/main/resources/dev/content.txt
> git mv gitmvtest/resources/prod/content.txt gitmvtest/src/main/resources/prod/content.txt

> git status
renamed:    gitmvtest/resources/demo/content.txt ->
gitmvtest/src/main/resources/demo/content.txt
renamed:    gitmvtest/resources/prod/content.txt ->
gitmvtest/src/main/resources/dev/content.txt          <== WRONG
renamed:    gitmvtest/resources/dev/content.txt ->
gitmvtest/src/main/resources/prod/content.txt          <== WRONG


NOTE:
=======
if modified the content.txt in the 3 folders to contain different
data, then repeating the above 'git mv' will produce correct result,

renamed:    gitmvtest/resources/demo/content.txt ->
gitmvtest/src/main/resources/demo/content.txt       <== CORRECT
renamed:    gitmvtest/resources/dev/content.txt ->
gitmvtest/src/main/resources/dev/content.txt             <== CORRECT
renamed:    gitmvtest/resources/prod/content.txt ->
gitmvtest/src/main/resources/prod/content.txt          <== CORRECT



just want to see if this is a bug, user error (on my end), or??


Thanks,
Bill

             reply	other threads:[~2016-02-24 23:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-24 23:38 Bill Okara [this message]
2016-02-24 23:39 ` git mv messed up file mapping if folders contain identical files Junio C Hamano
2016-02-24 23:51   ` Bill Okara
2016-02-25  0:03     ` Bill Okara
2016-02-25 11:49 ` Kevin Daudt
2016-02-25 13:56   ` Stefan Beller
2016-02-25 16:25     ` Bill Okara
2016-02-26 11:50       ` SZEDER Gábor
2016-02-26 15:48         ` Bill Okara

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