Le dimanche 30 mars 2008, Bryan Donlan a écrit : > On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 3:13 AM, Christian Couder > <chriscool@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Initialized empty Git repository in .git/ > > Created initial commit 3f945ca: Initial commit. > > 0 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > > create mode 100644 foo > > fatal: unable to index file foo > > > > I think it's quite bad that it doesn't work. > > What behavior would you expect this to have? IMO, it's not entirely > clear what the user means to do if they replace a file with an empty > directory, as an empty directory cannot be added to the index. Even > with a directory with contents, some of the contents may be junk (.o > for example) as far as the user is concerned. I think Git should behave the same as when using "git rm foo" instead of "rm foo", that is the file "foo" should be deleted without errors. That's what version 1.5.3 did too. > Would a clearer diagnostic be a good solution? Something like: > fatal: foo: file replaced by directory. > Use git rm --cached or git add to specify how this should be handled. No, I think we should fix the regression. Using "git rm stuff" instead of "rm stuff" should not be required. Regards, Christian. -- 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
