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Re: More merge-recursive woes

From
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Dec 13, 2006, 14:28 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.63.0612131526180.3635@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
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<20061213073639.GA9289@spearce.org>
Hi,
On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Shawn Pearce wrote:
> Bug #1: If one branch renames a file which existed in the merge base, 
> when we merge that change into a different branch the old version of the 
> file is not deleted from the working directory.  The attached test 
> script shows this ("BAD: A still exists in working directory").
You miss a ":" at the end of the test script, BTW.

This bug is fixed by your patch, which makes remove_file() update the working directory in the last stage.

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> Bug #2: In that horrible repository that I have where I ran into the
> empty tree missing bug I now have a pair of commits which when merged
> together cause git-merge-recursive to go into an infinite loop,
> or least burn CPU for hours on end without doing squat.  I have
> not been able to get enough data to even write a good analysis
> of it yet.  I'll try to do that this week, as I cannot share the
> repository itself.  It just happens to be two new commits along
> the same two branches however.  :-(
Could you please send me the rev-list output for this test case?
Ciao,
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  1. Shawn PearceDec 13, 2006
  2. Johannes SchindelinDec 13, 2006
  3. Shawn PearceDec 13, 2006

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