Hi, Seth Falcon <sethfalcon <at> gmail.com> writes: > Eric Wong <normalperson <at> yhbt.net> writes: > > I can't reproduce it on Linux with ext3. I translated your recipe into > > a test script in the patch below. Anybody familiar with OSX and/or HFS > > know if there's a workaround or fix for this? I've been investigating this problem too, as it keeps biting me when importing our (OpenXPKIs) subversion tree using git-svn. I'd love to work with git and am happy to help with debugging this further. Still, I am a pretty puzzled on why this happens ... > And so then on Linux with -v I get (after snipping most of the > output): > First, rewinding head to replay your work on top of it... > symlink: 'foo.txt' => 'bar.txt' > On my OSX laptop I get: > First, rewinding head to replay your work on top of it... > symlink: 'foo.txt' => '' Same here (this is a MacBook Pro, for what it's worth, BTW). As said, I've investigated this a bit further. The empty filename in new seems to come from trying to read the wrong SHA1 file. If one outputs ce->sha1 before void *new = read_sha1_file(ce->sha1, &type, size); is called, one gets different output on Linux and Mac OS X. For Seth's example, I get 5f34b0af07646aa529b5b005cde3a9559e606210 on Linux and e69de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391 on Mac OS X ... I've tried tracking down where this comes from. Here is what I've learned: - read_blob_entry() is called from write_entry(). SHA1 is already incorrect at that point in time. - write_entry() is called from checkout_entry(). SHA1 is already incorrect at that point in time. - checkout_entry() is called from check_updates(). SHA1 is already incorrect at that point in time. Unluckily I could not figure out, where it is computed in the first place. One idea was that maybe it was cached from the old file in the Mac OS X case and recomputed on Linux or so? Or maybe it's not git's fault but git-svn messes up (although I doubt it)? I'll happy try out anything that has a slight chance of solving this issue (workarounds greatly appreciated, too). Best regards, Alex - 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