From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 00:04:06 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFH] straightening out "read-tree -m"
Message-ID: <7v1wjmnlop.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <45FDC95B.5020106@midwinter.com>

Steven Grimm <koreth@midwinter.com> writes:

> On my to-do list for next week is to try to come up with a minimally
> complex test case to demonstrate the problem, as the actual
> repositories in question are pretty convoluted and there were a bunch
> of other unrelated changes. I didn't mention it before now because I
> knew my description was certain to be too vague to be useful without a
> test case to look at.

You are free to come up with test case, but I have a feeling
that the problem is already well understood (and that is why the
last part of my RFH matters a lot more than the former "case
table").  In short, "read-tree -m" (and unpack-trees) is screwy
in the presense of D/F conflicts.