Subject: Re: git rebase bug?

From: Mike Hommey <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 22:51:26 +0200

On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 08:00:04PM +0200, Björn Steinbrink <[email-masked]> wrote:
> On 2010.07.07 17:05:45 +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > See how the security/manager/ssl/public/nsIBadCertListener.idl file that
> > was created by the original patch is created as
> > xulrunner/examples/simple/content/contents.rdf.
> 
> The "problem" is that nsIBadCertListener.idl wasn't actually created by
> the cherry-picked commit, but was modified. It was an empty file before,
> created in 4292283190983fa91b875e22664a79a3aa9ea45d.
> 
> And as nsIBadCertListener.idl is missing from the xulrunner/2.0 branch,
> git does the usual rename detection, finding another empty file and ends
> up patching that one instead.

Oh, makes sense. Thanks. So that's a quite troubling corner case...
I wonder if empty files shouldn't be special cased...

Mike