From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2007 19:20:48 GMT
Subject: Re: possible bug in git apply?
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0708051219440.5037@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <853ayxiznp.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>



On Sun, 5 Aug 2007, David Kastrup wrote:
> 
> But your proposed three passes won't work with a patch removing
> "x/..."  and creating "x" in its place, since "x/" gets only removed
> in pass 3, and "x" needs to created in pass 2 already.

Yes, I was wrong. The current two passes are the right thing to do, and we 
should just always remove empty directories (and my patch was fine: we can 
leave them alone if it's a pure "modify file in place", but that's really 
the only case).

		Linus