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. -- 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