Subject: Re: [PATCH] modify/delete conflict resolution overwrites untracked file

From: Clemens Buchacher <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:11:47 +0100

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 12:51:59PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Clemens Buchacher <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > If it's a regression, it dates far back, since 1.5.0 fails as well.
> 
> A good lit(h)mus test to see if it is a regression or just a plain bug in
> the recursive strategy would be to see what 'resolve' strategy does
> (replace "merge" with "merge -s resolve" in your test).

"merge -s resolve" fails with

Trying really trivial in-index merge...
error: Merge requires file-level merging
Nope.
Trying simple merge.
Simple merge failed, trying Automatic merge.
ERROR: c1.c: Not handling case ae9304576a6ec3419b231b2b9c8e33a06f97f9fb ->
-> 8173b675dc61bb578b411c769c9fb654625a7c4e
fatal: merge program failed
Automatic merge failed; fix conflicts and then commit the result.

and therefore passes the test.