Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:
So it's definitely a much deeper topic than your small patch. Which
maybe means we should apply your patch now as a band-aid and hope for a
better solution in the long term. I dunno.
I'm too lazy/don't have time to do an in-depth fix. It doesn't seem
crazy to apply the patch, since it fixes the common case, and adds tests
for it, but I don't care personnaly about the feature/bug, so I won't
fight if it's rejected. I can resend with a more explicit comment in the
code saying it would deserve a better fix if someone cares.
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Matthieu Moy
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