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Re: Strange effect merging empty file

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Mar 22, 2012, 17:03 UTC
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
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> I was thinking the same thing. And it seems this came up once before,
> and the list seemed to favor special-casing merge-recursive (but not
> diffcore):
>
>   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/116917/focus=117082

Yeah, thanks for digging up the old thread. I was looking at the patch to merge-recursive from Dscho on that thread and I think it identified the place that needs patching correctly. I was on a tablet, without the access to the surrounding code outside the patch context, so I do not know if the logic to detect the pure-rename of an empty file in the patch was correct, or the patch still applies to the current codebase, though.

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  1. Ralf NyrenMar 21, 2012
  2. Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-SzmekMar 21, 2012
  3. Junio C HamanoMar 21, 2012
  4. Randal L. SchwartzMar 22, 2012
  5. Ralf NyrenMar 22, 2012
  6. Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-SzmekMar 22, 2012
  7. Jeff KingMar 22, 2012
  8. Junio C HamanoMar 22, 2012
  9. Jeff KingMar 22, 2012
  10. Jeff KingMar 22, 2012
  11. Jeff KingMar 22, 2012
  12. 1/3 drop casts from users EMPTY_TREE_SHA1_BINJeff King, Mar 22, 2012
  13. 2/3 make is_empty_blob_sha1 available everywhereJeff King, Mar 22, 2012
  14. 3/3 merge-recursive: don't detect renames from empty filesJeff King, Mar 22, 2012
  15. Jonathan NiederMar 22, 2012
  16. Jeff KingMar 22, 2012
  17. Junio C HamanoMar 22, 2012
  18. Jeff KingMar 22, 2012
  19. Junio C HamanoMar 22, 2012
  20. 0/2 merging renames of empty filesJeff King, Mar 22, 2012
  21. 1/2 teach diffcore-rename to optionally ignore empty contentJeff King, Mar 22, 2012
  22. 2/2 merge-recursive: don't detect renames of empty filesJeff King, Mar 22, 2012
  23. Junio C HamanoMar 22, 2012
  24. Jeff KingMar 23, 2012
  25. Junio C HamanoMar 23, 2012

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