I'm reposting this since I didn't get any responses and I think my message didn't contained enought context. I think I may have spotted a bug, or a unhandled case when doing a cherry-pick Consider a repository like this: # Initialize a dummy repository mkdir -p repo1 ; cd repo1 git init . # Create a new directory `dir1' and a link to it `dir2' mkdir dir1 echo file1 > dir1/file1 ln -s dir1 dir2 git add dir1 dir2 git commit -m "Initial status: dir2 -> dir1" # Create a branch named `test1' remove the `dir2' link and # replace it by a new directory git checkout -b test1 git rm dir2 mkdir dir2 touch file2 > dir2/file1 git add dir2/file1 git commit -m "Removing link: dir1/ and dir2/" # Now create a new file in `test1' branch message="New file in test1" echo $message > new_file_test1 git add new_file_test1 git commit -m "$message" # Now try to cherry-pick last commit from `test1' into master git co master git cherry-pick test1 The cherry-pick fails saying if failed to merge `dir2' despite the fact that the commit doesn't affect `dir2' and git diff test1~..test1 | git apply is working. Am I doing something wrong ? -- Camille Moncelier http://devlife.org -- 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