From: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:08:58 GMT
Subject: Re: [StGit PATCH] Add some tests of refreshing removed files
Message-ID: <9e4733910808040708k69802d6w120fd88df7f92b7b@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910808040707u2ef8992eha629ebca9c41730b@mail.gmail.com>

On 8/4/08, Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/4/08, Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com> wrote:
>  > Signed-off-by: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
>  >
>  >  ---
>  >
>  >  These four tests all pass on Catalin's current master. Do they fail
>  >  for you, or did I miss something in your problem description?
>
>
> I just updated to current git and stg and retested. Tracking a remove
>  is working now for me. Tools were about three months old before
>  updating.
>
>  Not sure what changed. But I definitely couldn't get stgit to do it
>  and had to use git commands to generate the patch. I would remove the
>  file, refresh and the patch was empty.
>  stg status would show the file in D state.  As soon as I touched
>  something else and refreshed the rm would appear in the patch.

The file I was trying to rm was a hidden file, .mailmap

>
>  Maybe there is more to the triggering sequence than a simple rm. I'll
>  keep a watch out and see if I can figure out how I got into the state.
>
>
>  --
>  Jon Smirl
>  jonsmirl@gmail.com
>


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Jon Smirl
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