Re: files are disappearing in git

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Nov 23, 2005, 17:20 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0511230917130.13959@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <20051123142303.GJ22568@schottelius.org>

On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Nico -telmich- Schottelius wrote:

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> I've the problem that some files (a directory with 3 files) is simply 'away':
> 
> - We added it once
> - In current tree it's away
> - pasky aided me in irc to find the commit where it is gone with git bisect
> --> very nice tool
> - the commit, after which the directory was gone did NOT modify this directory
> - though the directory is gone
> 
> What should I do know to find out what's the reason git 'forgot' that directory?

I bet somebody just messed up the index before that commit. So the commit probably _did_ modify the directory, though some incorrect patching or some scripting bug.

If you can guess at all what went on at around that commit (what else happened there?) that might help. Was it a merge? If those three files existed in the base commit of the merge but not in one of the branches, then the merge would have assumed that the branch just deleted it.

Is the tree public so that we can look at it and perhaps make a guess from what happened around it?

		Linus