From: Tim Uckun <timuckun@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 08:03:56 GMT
Subject: Re: can anybody explain the following to a git noob?
Message-ID: <855e4dcf0905230103q33508f0eh3aa2838ee71e0a81@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.0905221259330.27232@reaper.quantumfyre.co.uk>

> What's in the subdirectory?  Is it empty?  If so, that would explain what
> you are seeing.  Git doesn't track directories - so an empty directory is
> always treated as an untracked file.

The directories are not empty. They contain various tests (unit tests,
integration tests etc).

>
> I don't know if mercurial tracks directories, if it does, then this would
> explain why it behaves diffently to git.
>

That might be the reason.

I am just baffled. I have run that script many times and it always
turns out the same. For example on one run I removed all the .git
directories in all the subdirectories to see if I would get different
results but it didn't help (git mv worked but the messed up
directories remained).

I also tried renaming other directories and similar things happen.