From: Michael Cassar <m.e.cassar@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 01:33:09 GMT
Subject: Re: [BUG] 'git mv a/fileA b/fileB' causes 'c/fileC' to be deleted
Message-ID: <750170aa0610011833n39271704q349d86af76832783@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vpsdc0wkz.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On 10/2/06, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> There could be a bigger problem, but it does not seem to easily
> reproduce as you noted in the message.  It could be that some
> unrelated thing in the working tree is playing a role in this
> breakage, but I do not think of offhand what that is.

> [...]  Care to show a bit more details
> on your working tree?

Okay, I should stop being lazy and actually produce a minimal test-case.

Here we go:

--CUT--
#!/bin/bash

git init-db

mkdir papers
mkdir papers/unsorted
mkdir papers/all-papers
mkdir partA
echo 'moo' > papers/unsorted/Thesis.pdf
echo 'cow' > partA/outline.txt
echo 'this file has brackets in its filename' > 'papers/unsorted/(brackets).pdf'

git add  papers partA
git commit -m 'intial commit'

git mv papers/unsorted/Thesis.pdf papers/all-papers/moo-blah.pdf
git commit -m 'move a file'

cg log -f
--CUT--

The problem seems to have come from the fact that a file in the source
directory of the move contained brackets in its filename.Removing the
file causes the problem to go away.

Hope this helps a little,

Mike