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bug#1408: 23.0.60; git/*vc-dir*: does not register a symbolic link which
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Dan Nicolaescu |
Subject: |
bug#1408: 23.0.60; git/*vc-dir*: does not register a symbolic link which befor was a directory with one singel file |
Date: |
Sun, 28 Dec 2008 10:28:40 -0800 (PST) |
severity 1408 wishlist
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Gregor Zattler <telegraph@gmx.net> writes:
> Disclaimer: I'm new to version control, perhaps I do not understand
> the situation. These are the steps to reproduce the problem:
>
> $ mkdir vc-emacs-test
> $ cd vc-emacs-test
> $ git init
> Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/vc-emacs-test/.git/
> $ mkdir dir directory
> $ echo test >dir/test
> $ git add .
> $ git commit -a -m "one"
> Created initial commit cdd09ae: one
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 dir/test
> $ rm -rf dir
> $ ln -s directory dir
> $ emacs-snapshot -Q
>
> ^X v d
>
> now in buffer *vc-dir* looks like this:
>
>
> VC backend : Git
> Working dir: /tmp/vc-emacs-test/
> Branch : master
>
> ./
> unregistered dir
> dir/
> removed dir/test
>
>
> move cursor on this line type 'i' to register. Following error
> messages are displayed:
>
> on the last line, copied from *Messages*:
> vc-do-command: Running git update-index --add -- dir...FAILED (status 128)
>
>
> In buffer *vc*:
>
> error: 'dir' appears as both a file and as a directory
> error: dir: cannot add to the index - missing --add option?
> fatal: Unable to process path dir
>
>
>
>
> I think this is a bug because emacs should handle this case (at least
> with a sensible message what to do).
>
> Actually this happend in a "real" scenario, I decided to reproduce a
> minimalistic example.
VC is not really prepared to deal with arbitrary commands on symlinks,
so it's not surprising that this corner case fails.
Changing a directory into a symlink between to VC operations is not
something that happens very frequently...
- bug#1408: 23.0.60; git/*vc-dir*: does not register a symbolic link which befor was a directory with one singel file,
Dan Nicolaescu <=