From: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2015 16:47:30 GMT
Subject: Re: [BUG/PATCH] t9350-fast-export: Add failing test for symlink-to-directory
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.10.1508211238570.31851@buzzword-bingo.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20150821145827.GA565@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Fri, 21 Aug 2015, Jeff King wrote:
>   - we may still have the opposite problem with renames. That is, a
>     rename is _also_ a deletion, but will go to the end. So I would
>     expect renaming the symlink "foo" to "bar" and then adding
>     "foo/world" would end up with:
> 
>        M 100644 :3 foo/world
>        R foo bar
> 
>     (because we push renames to the end in our sort). And indeed,
>     importing that does seem to get it wrong (we end up with "bar/world"
>     and no symlink).
> 
> We can't fix the ordering in the second case without breaking the first
> case. So I'm not sure it's fixable on the fast-export end.

Hmm, renames have a more fundamental ordering problem: swapping two 
(normal) files and using fast-export -C -B results in

  R foo bar
  R bar foo

which cannot be reimported correctly without fast-import fixes.

Anders