[Kjetil: I bisected this bug to your 92604b4. Details below.] On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 12:18:16PM +0400, Alexander Gladysh wrote: > Any help here? This bug is pretty annoying (especially that it > requires double hard resets). > > Should I provide any extra information? Actually, I think the problem happens earlier than you realize; I see problems when switching back to master: -- >8 -- # make a repo mkdir repo && cd repo && git init # content in alpha mkdir alpha && echo content >alpha/file && git add . && git commit -m one # and duplicate content inside beta mkdir beta && cp -R alpha beta && git add . && git commit -m two # now replace the duplicate with a symlink git checkout -b branch rm -rf beta/alpha && git add -u && git commit -m deleted ln -s ../alpha beta/alpha && git add . && git commit -m symlink # now checkout master again; alpha/file will be missing, even # though it wasn't touched at all git checkout master git status -- 8< -- We handled this correctly in v1.6.1, so I was able to bisect it down to: commit 92604b466344b2157efc42ef3521dac22d7906a2 Author: Kjetil Barvik <barvik@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun Jan 18 16:14:50 2009 +0100 lstat_cache(): more cache effective symlink/directory detection Make the cache functionality more effective. Previously when A/B/C/D was in the cache and A/B/C/E/file.c was called for, there was no match at all from the cache. Now we use the fact that the paths "A", "A/B" and "A/B/C" are already tested, and we only need to do an lstat() call on "A/B/C/E". I don't have time to look more closely now, but I'm guessing we are treating the symlink to the directory like the directory itself in a place that we shouldn't. -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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