Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx> writes: > For some random reason (probably just because nobody noticed), the one-way > merge strategy didn't mark deleted files as deleted, so if you used > > git-read-tree -m -u <newtree> > > it would update the files that got changed in the index, but it would not > delete the files that got deleted. Good catch. I think it is a leftover from the days we did not have -u there; returning 0 was a way to say "there is no cache entry resulting from this round of path-merge". - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html