Re: "git-checkout-cache -f -a" failure

Here's the symlink version. Note, that git does not complain but simply creates (or overwrites) the wrong file.

Morten

cd /tmp mkdir xxx cd xxx rm -rf .git dir yyy mkdir dir touch dir/empty cg-init </dev/null cg-tag initial mkdir yyy touch yyy/zzz cg-add yyy/zzz cg-commit </dev/null cg-tag dir rm -rf yyy rm -f .git/HEAD cat .git/refs/tags/initial > .git/HEAD git-read-tree -m HEAD git-checkout-cache -f -a ln -s dir yyy git-update-cache --add -- yyy cg-commit </dev/null cg-tag symlink # Got that?

# yyy is a symlink right now. git-read-tree `cat .git/refs/tags/dir` git-checkout-cache -f -a ls -l dir total 0 -rw-rw-r-- 1 welinder research 0 May 11 14:20 empty -rw-rw-r-- 1 welinder research 0 May 11 14:26 zzz # dir/zzz should not exist at ths point!