Re: Git revert cannot be aborted if the repository directory has been copied

From: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com>
Date: Nov 3, 2024, 15:07 UTC
Message-ID: <bb6d781e-fc67-4790-a3a9-8b672dcfe7a0@app.fastmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <9fd66b8f-c457-451b-9862-6121128b2786@app.fastmail.com>

On Sun, Nov 3, 2024, at 16:04, Kristoffer Haugsbakk wrote:

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> On Sun, Nov 3, 2024, at 03:34, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Marco Stephan <marc.stephan96@hotmail.de> writes:
>>
>>> If you copy a Git repository directory to another path while there is a revert in progress for the Git repository, "git revert --abort" does not work anymore for the copied repository. Instead, it will report an error of the following format:
>>>       error: Entry '...' not uptodate. Cannot merge.
>>>       fatal: Could not reset index file to revision '...'.
>>
>> I wonder if
>>
>>     $ git update-index --refresh
>>
>> is all it takes.
>
>
> This is correct.  This successful test can be added to
> t3501-revert-cherry-pick.sh:

(Meaning one can add it there if one wants to see for themselves)

-- 
Kristoffer Haugsbakk