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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor•com>
To: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail•com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git rebase chokes on directory -> symlink -> directory
Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 19:43:49 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46413565.3090503@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070508215009.GA2670@steel.home>

Alex Riesen wrote:

> 
> What kind of manual fixup did you do? I tried to reproduce it, and did
> the following:
> 
>     git clone --reference ~/linux.git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hpa/linux-2.6-newsetup.git
>     cd linux-2.6-newsetup.git
>     git rebase a989705c4cf6e6c1a339c95f9daf658b4ba88ca8
> 
> It stopped at 'Revert "x86-64: Make arch/x86-64/boot a symlink to
> arch/i386/boot"' aka cd312503f8e8a88895b12bf810677406284142e6.
> I went on:
> 
>     rm arch/x86-64/boot
>     git checkout cd312503f8e8a88895b12bf810677406284142e6 arch/x86-64/boot
>     git rebase --continue
> 
> And then it just continued until all commits were rebased.
> I have a very recent git, so maybe that's why it worked.
> 

Mine stops already at the directory -> symlink checkin (the above is the
symlink -> directory one), but your trick of using "git checkout" as a
trick to resolve things helped for both... eventually :-/

Either way, it's still a bug that it stops for either checkin, but it's
not blocking my work anymore.

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-09  2:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-08  1:08 git rebase chokes on directory -> symlink -> directory H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-08 21:50 ` Alex Riesen
2007-05-09  2:43   ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-05-09  7:50     ` Alex Riesen
2007-05-09 16:58       ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-09 21:39         ` Alex Riesen
2007-05-09 22:44           ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-10  6:44             ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-10  7:55               ` Johannes Sixt
2007-05-10 22:04               ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-05-11  6:04                 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-11 15:56                   ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-11 17:28                     ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-11  4:36               ` [PATCH] apply: do not get confused by symlinks in the middle Junio C Hamano
2007-05-12  0:32     ` git rebase chokes on directory -> symlink -> directory Junio C Hamano
2007-05-12  0:35       ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-14  4:37       ` Junio C Hamano

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