Re: Cherry-pick with symlinks fails horribly

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On Friday 12 March 2010 06:49:23 Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Christian Couder <chriscool@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > Anyway when looking at t/t6035-merge-dir-to-symlink.sh, we can see that
> > there are still 2 broken tests:
> >
> > $ ./t6035-merge-dir-to-symlink.sh
> > ...
> > *   ok 5: do not lose a/b-2/c/d in merge (resolve)
> > *   still broken 6: do not lose a/b-2/c/d in merge (recursive)
> > *   ok 7: setup a merge where dir a/b-2 changed to symlink
> > *   ok 8: merge should not have conflicts (resolve)
> > *   still broken 9: merge should not have conflicts (recursive)
> > * still have 2 known breakage(s)
> > * passed all remaining 7 test(s)
> >
> > So it looks like breakages in this area are known, though perhaps not
> > your particular breakage.
> 
> The above shows that resolve passes the same tests that recursive fails,
> which means that the breakage is likely to be in recursive, and not in
> unpack-trees, as you seemt to have guessed earlier.  

Yes, you are right the breakage is in recursive as it works with resolve.

> If cherry-pick were
> still a shell script, we could easily test that conjecture by letting you
> try running it using resolve instead of recursive, but things like that
> has got a lot harder to do these days since many things were rewritten in
> C (sigh).
> 
> It might not be a bad idea to teach a hidden primarily-for-debugging
> option to "cherry-pick" to let it use resolve instead of recursive for
> cases like this.

I will send an RFC patch series to do that. I used it to check that the test 
case works with the resolve strategy.

Best regards,
Christian.
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