Re: Files not deleted when merging after a rename
- From
Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
- Date
- Jan 21, 2008, 21:20 UTC
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- <20080121212015.GB5263@steel.home>
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- <d997e2110801211145o5fe0a1bbpb1e32dd71b70568e@mail.gmail.com>
Mark Desnoyer, Mon, Jan 21, 2008 20:45:07 +0100:
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> Hi, > > I've run across a small problem and I was wondering if I could get > some help. I have two users A and B. They are both git-cloned from a > common repository on a different server. > > User A moves a directory: > foo/bar/ ==> bar > using: > git mv foo/bar bar > git commit > git push > > Meanwhile, user B is doing some other changes that are completely > unrelated and has a few local commits. Now, when user B pulls from the > repository (git pull), and returns no errors merging, the directory > "bar" is created, but "foo/bar" is not deleted, although, it becomes > untracked.
Directories are never tracked. It should have been deleted though. Did it have (or still has) some untracked files in it?