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Re: file deletion in index lost after checkout -b

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Sep 5, 2008, 06:12 UTC
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Jing Xue <jingxue@digizenstudio.com> writes:
[jc: please redirect an answer _meant for you_ off to the list with M-F-T header]
> In Git 1.6.0 the following sequence:
> ...
> 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.
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  2. Junio C HamanoSep 5, 2008
  3. Jing XueSep 6, 2008
  4. Junio C HamanoSep 6, 2008
  5. Re* file deletion in index lost after checkout -bJunio C Hamano, Sep 8, 2008
  6. Jing XueSep 9, 2008

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