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From: Yves Goergen <nospam.list@unclassified•de>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff•net>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bug! Git merge also fails with a wrong error message
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 20:05:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F108094.5080705@unclassified.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120113185436.GA13522@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On 13.01.2012 19:54 CE(S)T, Jeff King wrote:
> Whether you realize it or not, git is using the index to store state.
> When you "git add", "git rm", or "git mv", it is updating the index.

I'm using TortoiseGit most of the time and that doesn't expose the
concept of an "index". I edit files as usual, then select "commit" and
get the commit dialogue. In there I enter the commit message and select
all files to commit. I can add new files right there. There is no
two-step procedure.

> I notice that in your first mail, you mentioned a problem with
> "checkout", and in the second one, a problem with "merge". Do you still
> have the repo around with the "checkout" problem? If so, is the file
> also in your "git ls-files" output in that repo?

Yes, I have made a backup of the repo right after the initial problem
arose. And the git ls-files output is the same regarding that file.

> Which version of git are you using? There were many bugs fixed around
> this area of merge around the v1.7.7 timeframe.

msysGit 1.7.8 on Windows XP SP3. It's a "preview" but since Git is so
old now and there's been nothing but "previews", I consider msysGit's
meaning of the word "preview" as "stable".

-- 
Yves Goergen "LonelyPixel" <nospam.list@unclassified•de>
Visit my web laboratory at http://beta.unclassified.de

  reply	other threads:[~2012-01-13 19:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-12 18:44 Bug? Git checkout fails with a wrong error message Yves Goergen
2012-01-13 12:50 ` Holger Hellmuth
2012-01-13 17:46   ` Yves Goergen
2012-01-13 19:28     ` Holger Hellmuth
2012-01-15  8:14       ` Yves Goergen
2012-01-16 11:07         ` Holger Hellmuth
2012-01-16 18:50           ` Yves Goergen
2012-01-16 19:09             ` Jeff King
2012-01-16 21:20               ` Yves Goergen
2012-01-16 21:27                 ` Jeff King
2012-01-17  7:41                   ` Yves Goergen
2012-01-16 19:17             ` Thomas Rast
     [not found]               ` <4F152767.9010104@unclassified.de>
2012-01-17  8:45                 ` Thomas Rast
2012-01-17 17:56                   ` Yves Goergen
2012-01-19 10:24                     ` Thomas Rast
2012-01-16 21:18             ` Erik Faye-Lund
2012-01-16 18:58           ` Yves Goergen
2012-01-13 17:37 ` Bug! Git merge also " Yves Goergen
2012-01-13 17:50   ` Jeff King
2012-01-13 18:49     ` Yves Goergen
2012-01-13 18:54       ` Jeff King
2012-01-13 19:05         ` Yves Goergen [this message]
2012-01-13 17:56   ` Carlos Martín Nieto
2012-01-13 18:59     ` Yves Goergen
2012-01-13 19:34       ` Jakub Narebski
2012-01-15  8:17         ` Yves Goergen
2012-01-15 10:08           ` Jakub Narebski

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