Re: file deletion in index lost after checkout -b

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Jing Xue <jingxue@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

[jc: please redirect an answer _meant for you_ off to the list with M-F-T header]

> In Git 1.6.0 the following sequence:
> ...
> The deletion of 2.txt appears lost during 'checkout -b foo', while the
> modification and addition were both brought over. Is it a bug?

This behaviour is unchanged since early June 2005.

    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/4641/focus=4646

This is exactly the case marked as *0*, which both Linus and I said "it
feels somewhat wrong but otherwise we cannot start from an empty index".

We may want to do better this time around, though.



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