Re: [PATCH RFC] Test for apparent regression of merging renamed files

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Hi,

On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Ciaran <ciaranj@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 8:04 PM, Ciaran <ciaranj@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Provides a test to cover a case that appears to have been regressed out by:
>>
>> Âb2c8c0a762745768e8fb249949801c1aed8f7c1d
>>
>> At this point no tags contain the above commit, but 'master' does. ÂI'm unsure
>> what is causing the issue, but can see discussion about this fix here:
>>
>> http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/BUG-merge-recursive-triggered-quot-BUG-quot-td6179353.html
>>
>> Providing a patch to demonstrate the issue and spark discussion.
....
> The original behaviour (successful merge) seems 'better' than the
> current behaviour 'failed merge, 'erroneous' both modified flag' ...
> am I mis-reading this, is this a new non-supported edge case ?

Thanks for the testcase.  This is clearly a bug; and a rather easy one
to trigger at that.  I'll have to take a look, though I suspect it's
time to fix the deeper issues Junio pointed out previously...

Elijah
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