From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 22:09:31 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix bug in read-cache.c which loses files when merging a tree
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0504181508040.15725@ppc970.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050418215819.GH5554@pasky.ji.cz>



On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Petr Baudis wrote:
> 
> So, I'm confused. Why did you introduce unpack-file instead of doing
> just this?

It was code that I already had (ie the old code from "merge-cache" just
moved over), and thanks to that, I don't have to worry about broken
"mktemp" crap in user space...

		Linus