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Re: Possible bug in Git

From
Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date
Apr 16, 2010, 16:39 UTC
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<201004161839.37731.trast@student.ethz.ch>
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<alpine.LFD.2.00.1004160845350.15116@i5.linux-foundation.org>
Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I guess the issue is that combine-diff decides that there is nothing in 
> the result that isn't in either of the sources (because there is nothing 
> at all in the result), and as such it's not "interesting" after all.

It does give me a warm and fuzzy feeling when you are devising and discussing test cases for a bug that I believe I fixed before this branch of the thread even began:

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/144982
:-)
[scnr]
-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch
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Message 10 of 12 in “Possible bug in Git”
  1. David Martínez MartíApr 15, 2010
  2. combined diff: correctly handle truncated fileThomas Rast, Apr 15, 2010
  3. Avery PennarunApr 15, 2010
  4. Junio C HamanoApr 16, 2010
  5. Avery PennarunApr 16, 2010
  6. Avery PennarunApr 16, 2010
  7. Jay SoffianApr 16, 2010
  8. Avery PennarunApr 16, 2010
  9. Linus TorvaldsApr 16, 2010
  10. Thomas RastApr 16, 2010
  11. Junio C HamanoApr 16, 2010
  12. Thomas RastApr 16, 2010

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