Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-svn.perl: fix a false-positive in the "already exists" test

From: Eric Wong <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:33:17 +0000

Steven Walter <[email-masked]> wrote:
> open_or_add_dir checks to see if the directory already exists or not.
> If it already exists and is not a directory, then we fail.  However,
> open_or_add_dir did not previously account for the possibility that the
> path did exist as a file, but is deleted in the current commit.
> 
> In order to prevent this legitimate case from failing, open_or_add_dir
> needs to know what files are deleted in the current commit.
> Unfortunately that information has to be plumbed through a couple of
> layers.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Steven Walter <[email-masked]>

Thanks, will push.
Acked-by: Eric Wong <[email-masked]>