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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	david@lang.hm, git@vger.kernel.org, rob@landley.net
Subject: Re: possible bug in git apply?
Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2007 12:20:48 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0708051219440.5037@woody.linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <853ayxiznp.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>



On Sun, 5 Aug 2007, David Kastrup wrote:
> 
> But your proposed three passes won't work with a patch removing
> "x/..."  and creating "x" in its place, since "x/" gets only removed
> in pass 3, and "x" needs to created in pass 2 already.

Yes, I was wrong. The current two passes are the right thing to do, and we 
should just always remove empty directories (and my patch was fine: we can 
leave them alone if it's a pure "modify file in place", but that's really 
the only case).

		Linus

  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-05 19:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-04 19:45 possible bug in git apply? david
2007-08-04 20:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-04 20:08 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-05  4:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-05  4:53   ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-05  5:11   ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-05  7:55     ` David Kastrup
2007-08-05 16:59     ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-05 17:53       ` David Kastrup
2007-08-05 18:18         ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-05 18:50           ` David Kastrup
2007-08-05 19:20             ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2007-08-05 19:37               ` David Kastrup
2007-08-06  8:29       ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-06  9:37         ` Junio C Hamano

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