Re: [StGit PATCH] Add some tests of refreshing removed files

From: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Date: Aug 4, 2008, 14:43 UTC
Message-ID: <20080804144354.GE12232@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910808040707u2ef8992eha629ebca9c41730b@mail.gmail.com>

On 2008-08-04 10:07:45 -0400, Jon Smirl wrote:

> I just updated to current git and stg and retested. Tracking a
> remove is working now for me.

Well, that's good.

> Tools were about three months old before updating.

Might have been fixed by 8fe07fa4cef (Handle refresh of changed files with non-ASCII names) or 466bfe50 (Fix "refresh" failure with moved files (bug 11661)).

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> Not sure what changed. But I definitely couldn't get stgit to do it
> and had to use git commands to generate the patch. I would remove
> the file, refresh and the patch was empty. stg status would show the
> file in D state. As soon as I touched something else and refreshed
> the rm would appear in the patch.

Well, that's exactly what my new test tests for. So at least i got it right.

> Maybe there is more to the triggering sequence than a simple rm.
> I'll keep a watch out and see if I can figure out how I got into the
> state.

Thanks.

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