On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 11:12:26PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > [jc: please redirect an answer _meant for you_ off to the list with M-F-T header] I changed mutt to not use M-F-T with the git list at all. Hope this one turns out better. > > 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. I have since found out that: 1. file deletions in the working directory but not in index would not be forgotten. That makes "file deletions in index" case rather a corner one. 2. "checkout -b -m" would do the right thing. Cheers. -- Jing -- 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
