Re: What's in git.git (stable)

Steven Grimm [off-list ref] writes:

Will you be applying your patch for the "checkout fails if something
is a file in one branch and a directory in another" problem? I realize
it's not a complete solution, but it's at least a significant
improvement over the current behavior, and I don't imagine it breaks
anything else.

If I understand correctly, the patch is already broken.  Rather,
the patch itself may be correct but it exposes more breakages
that currently is hidden only because we do not replace bunch of
files in a subdirectory with a single file in the index thanks
to the "too strict" check that is bothering you.  Lifting that
check with the previous patch would make it either fail to
notice other local changes (which is worse), or mistakenly say
there is a local change when there is none (which is not better
but not worse).  In particular, I think it is highly suspicious
what the current code with the patch does to paths that
immediately follow the directory to be removed, although I
stopped looking into this issue, as we already said this will
not be dealt with in 1.5.1.

In short, I do not think the patch is suitable for production,
as the cure seems worse than the disease.

That does not mean anybody is forbidden to look into a fix in
the meantime.  I am just saying I do not expect it to happen
before 1.5.1.