Jing Xue <jingxue@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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. Thanks; I meant to say "please do not redirect", but you got what I wanted to say correctly. >> > 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. Both correct. 1. does not involve case *0*; 2. does not do two-tree switch but internally uses three-tree switch and uses different codepath. -- 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
