Re: problem with cherry-picking a commit which comes before introducing a new submodule

message is different -- result the same:
I: writing typescript to /home/yoh/.tmp/script.git-cherry-pick.17386.20110107.1857 ...
% git --version
git version 1.7.4.rc1
% git reset --hard
HEAD is now at 855981d just placeholders in the abstract
% export GIT_MERGE_VERBOSITY=5
% git cherry-pick todonotloose
CONFLICT (file/directory): There is a directory with name frontiers/code in a00c497... Initial draft for HBM abstract.. Adding frontiers/code as frontiers/code~HEAD
error: could not apply a00c497... Initial draft for HBM abstract.
hint: after resolving the conflicts, mark the corrected paths
hint: with 'git add <paths>' or 'git rm <paths>'
hint: and commit the result with 'git commit -c a00c497'
% git status      
# On branch master
# Changes to be committed:
#   (use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage)
#
#   new file:   poster-hbm2011_neurodebian/abstract.txt
#   modified:   poster-hbm2011_neurodebian/jb.txt
#
# Unmerged paths:
#   (use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage)
#   (use "git add/rm <file>..." as appropriate to mark resolution)
#
#   added by us:        frontiers/code
#
% git reset --hard
HEAD is now at 855981d just placeholders in the abstract
%         base=todonotloose^
%         next=todonotloose
%         head=HEAD
% 
%         git merge-recursive $base -- $head $next
Merging HEAD with todonotloose
Merging:
855981d just placeholders in the abstract
a00c497 Initial draft for HBM abstract.
found 1 common ancestor(s):
4708e24 minor moves around
CONFLICT (file/directory): There is a directory with name frontiers/code in todonotloose. Adding frontiers/code as frontiers/code~HEAD
%         git ls-files -u;        # after the merge
160000 a2b57871d2d79bef06ba6214739d82b9a63772a8 2   frontiers/code
zsh: command not found: #
%         git diff-tree todonotloose
a00c497fa399c00486c97121ed0b8fda72c7ce47
:040000 040000 40427e34a1ff89c458f2a5f262a108d46b4fa004 c7ba91028b1cef63f4f7eef70f0c4054b31e92b6 M  poster-hbm2011_neurodebian
%         git diff-tree todonotloose^ HEAD
:100644 100644 378e1379ec5ebb7abac59fec162b7238b5846525 c39ced763aeb5fd352cecd6fef1bfc40471f2246 M  .gitmodules
:000000 040000 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 141dbc1bfe1be2eab77f04ca03f6f28feb372cca A  challenge-execpapers
:040000 040000 401fd66867de412b8653dc3a698bbaa45441bec1 ee190f09786f324abdda6e7a36e8278c201a20a0 M  frontiers
:040000 040000 26c884a67efb55bdf96d7453d9acd50cee36ae90 ad3e829d15b302c4342a6b2a9fb5dfede0ed77c9 M  sty



On Fri, 07 Jan 2011, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

Yaroslav Halchenko wrote [abbreviated]:

quoted

Merging HEAD with todonotloose
Merging:
855981d just placeholders in the abstract
a00c497 Initial draft for HBM abstract.
CONFLICT (file/directory): There is a directory with name frontiers/code in todonotloose. Adding frontiers/code as
+frontiers/code~HEAD
%         git ls-files -u
160000 a2b5787 2   frontiers/code
%         git diff-tree todonotloose
a00c497
:040000 040000 40427e34 c7ba910 M	poster-hbm2011_neurodebian
%         git diff-tree todonotloose^ HEAD
:100644 100644 378e137 c39ced7 M	.gitmodules
:000000 040000 0000000 141dbc1 A	challenge-execpapers
:040000 040000 401fd66 ee190f0 M	frontiers
:040000 040000 26c884a ad3e829 M	sty

One more piece of protocol: what git version are you using?  The
release notes mention a fix in this area in v1.7.3[1]:

 * "git merge -s recursive" (which is the default) did not handle cases
   where a directory becomes a file (or vice versa) very well.

Hopefully this is that.  In any case, sounds like a bug.

(Hopefully someone else can comment on why cherry-pick uses the
merge machinery to notice conflicts that would not be clear from
the patch alone.)

Thanks again.
Jonathan

[1] There is an updated Debian source package at [2].  Or, probably
faster: one can use the build result in bin-wrappers/ from a git.git
clone in place.
[2] http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/git/git_1.7.4~rc1-0.1.dsc

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