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Re: Bug report: git status does not report unmerged entries with copies

From
Martin von Zweigbergk <martin.von.zweigbergk@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 7, 2011, 13:53 UTC
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On Wed, 6 Apr 2011, Mark Lodato wrote:
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> Commit 4d4d572, "status: show worktree status of conflicted paths
> separately" introduced the following bug:  If one tries to merge two
> branches with a conflict, where the conflicting file was also copied
> in one of the branches, "git status" (but not "git status -sb" or
> git-gui) fails to report the unmerged status.  You can use the below
> test file to see the error.  A similar test should probably be
> integrated into one of the existing git-status test files, though you
> may need to get rid of the "sed -i" command.
> 
> $ git status
> # On branch master
> # Changes to be committed:
> #
> #       renamed:    file -> copy
> #
> $ git status -sb
> ## master
> R  file -> copy
>  U file
> 
> In the above, "git status" should have reported "file" being in an
> unmerged state.  It probably should also mark "copy" as a copy, not a
> rename.

I sent a patch for this not so long ago [1]. It is currently in "next" as commit d7c9bf2. I think Junio said the plan is to release it in 1.7.5.

/Martin
 [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/169289/focus=169887
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