Re: file deletion in index lost after checkout -b

From: Jing Xue <jingxue@digizenstudio.com>
Date: Sep 6, 2008, 17:11 UTC
Message-ID: <20080906171108.GA10924@jabba.hq.digizenstudio.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vljy7xgs5.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 11:12:26PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> [jc: please redirect an answer _meant for you_ off to the list with M-F-T header]

I changed mutt to not use M-F-T with the git list at all. Hope this one turns out better.

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> > The deletion of 2.txt appears lost during 'checkout -b foo', while the
> > modification and addition were both brought over. Is it a bug?
> 
> This behaviour is unchanged since early June 2005.
> 
>     http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/4641/focus=4646
> 
> This is exactly the case marked as *0*, which both Linus and I said "it
> feels somewhat wrong but otherwise we cannot start from an empty index".
> 
> We may want to do better this time around, though.

I have since found out that:

1. file deletions in the working directory but not in index would not be forgotten. That
makes "file deletions in index" case rather a corner one.

2. "checkout -b -m" would do the right thing.

Cheers.

-- 
Jing