Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > +Before 2.17, the untracked cache had a bug where replacing a directory > +with a symlink to another directory could cause it to incorrectly show > +files tracked by git as untracked. See the "status: add a failing test > +showing a core.untrackedCache bug" commit to git.git. A workaround for > +that was (and this might work for other undiscoverd bugs in the > +future): s/undiscoverd/undiscovered/ But more importantly, would it help _us_ to encourage people to squelch the diagnoses without telling us about potential breakage, I wonder, by telling them to do this for other undiscovered cases, too? Will queue with the above typofix, together with the other one. I am not sure if we want to say "Before 2.17", though. > + > +---------------- > +$ git -c core.untrackedCache=false status > +---------------- > + > +This bug has also been shown to affect non-symlink cases of replacing > +a directory with a file when it comes to the internal structures of > +the untracked cache, but no case has been found where this resulted in > +wrong "git status" output. > + > File System Monitor > -------------------
