Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 1/3] t3030-merge-recursive: Test known breakage with empty work tree

From: Brad King <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 12:50:50 -0500

On 01/24/2014 11:51 AM, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> a quick summary of the symptoms and when it came up?

You're suggested commit message correctly explains it:

> Do you mean something like the following?
> 
> 	Sometimes when working with a large repository it can be useful to
> 	try out a merge and only check out conflicting files to disk (for
> 	example as a speed optimization on a server).  Until v1.7.7-rc1~28^2~20
> 	(merge-recursive: When we detect we can skip an update, actually
> 	skip it, 2011-08-11), it was possible to do so with the following
> 	idiom:
> 
> 		... summary of commands here ...
> 
> 	Nowadays, that still works and the exit status is the same,
> 	but merge-recursive produces a diagnostic if "our" side renamed
> 	a file:
> 
> 		error: addinfo_cache failed for path 'dst'
> 
> 	Add a test to document this regression.

Yes, thanks.

> Elsewhere in the test, commands in a subshell are indented by another
> tab, so these new tests should probably follow suit.

Great.  I'll fold both of the above into the next revision of the series.

Thanks,
-Brad