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Re: Git re-creates newly added directory when it is pushed

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YYuri <yuri@rawbw.com>
Date
Aug 30, 2021, 00:14 UTC
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On 8/29/21 5:07 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> This is one of the reasons why "rebase" (especially "rebase -i") may
> want to insist starting at the top-level of the working tree, like
> "git bisect" does.  Because running the command from a subdirectory
> works most of the time until it doesn't, people tend to complain why
> they should go up to the top-level before they can run the command.
>
> And this is why---it causes end-user confusion.

But there's no confusion here - git doesn't have to delete the directory and recreate it, but it does it anyway.

So this is just a bug that git disturbs users more than it should.
Yuri
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