Re: STG, problem with pop/push of alternative versions of a patch

> On 9/15/07, Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 15/09/2007, Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I trying to test two different versions of a patch that add files.
> > > These patches create a new directory and add several files. When I pop
> > > a version of the patch the directory and files and not getting
> > > removed. This causes an error when I push the alternative version of
> > > the patch.
> >
> > This shouldn't happen AFAICT (at least for the files, as GIT doesn't
> > care much about directories). What GIT/StGIT version are you using?
> > StGIT simply calls GIT to do the HEAD switch.
>
> I have played around with some more. It is more complicated than the
> simple case I described.  Earlier I noticed a message about applying a
> patch that was empty that shouldn't have been. I checked and the patch
> is indeed empty. The empty patch probably caused the files to be left.
> I had been using hide/unide and reordering with on the patch and had
> encountered a couple errors in stg. I'll try and track down the
> sequence that caused the contents of the patch to be lost.