From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 02:29:10 GMT
Subject: Re: "git-checkout-cache -f -a" failure
Message-ID: <7v64xru83t.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <118833cc05050911255e601fc@mail.gmail.com>

>>>>> "MW" == Morten Welinder <mwelinder@gmail.com> writes:

MW> git-checkout-cache is having problems when files change from directories to
MW> plain files or vice versa.

Changing files vs directories _is_ a big change and happens
rarely in practice; I think the current behaviour is
justified---it makes the user take notice and the user _should_
take notice.

Porcelain layer, if it wanted to, should be able to hide this
from the user, but it depends on which Porcelain layer command
is involved.  My understanding of cg-seek is to switch the work
tree to a completely different state, so in that case it
probably should hide this (still it makes me feel a bit nervous
to realize that I am advocating for the tool to silently remove
a whole subtree to make room for a file, though).