From: Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2021 00:14:15 GMT
Subject: Re: Git re-creates newly added directory when it is pushed
Message-ID: <da2bfcc8-09b2-c909-a316-343ab3108a58@rawbw.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqv93n7q1v.fsf@gitster.g>

On 8/29/21 5:07 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 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