Re: git mv messed up file mapping if folders contain identical files

following are the steps to help illustrate the issue. its actually
quite common to have projects include identical placeholder files
before update/refactoring...

// Create in master branch

mkdir gittest
cd gittest
init
mkdir -p gitmvtest/resources
mkdir -p gitmvtest/resources/demo
mkdir -p gitmvtest/resources/dev
mkdir -p gitmvtest/resources/prod
cd gitmvtest/resources/demo/
echo 'This is the line that contains the common content’ >> content.txt
cd ..
cp demo/content.txt dev/.
cp demo/content.txt prod/.
cd ../..
git add .
git commit -m "master content.txt first commit"

# change to a new branch

git checkout -b newTestBranch
mkdir -p gitmvtest/src/main
git mv gitmvtest/resources gitmvtest/src/main/.
git commit -m "newTestBranch: mv resources to src/main/resources"

[newTestBranch 5faed26] newTestBranch: mv resources to src/main/resources
 3 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

 rename gitmvtest/{resources/prod => src/main/resources/demo}/content.txt (100%)
 rename gitmvtest/{ => src/main}/resources/dev/content.txt (100%)
 rename gitmvtest/{resources/demo => src/main/resources/prod}/content.txt (100%)


// Change back to master and update the 3 files

git checkout master
echo 'this is DEMO content' >> gitmvtest/resources/demo/content.txt
echo 'this is DEV content' >> gitmvtest/resources/dev/content.txt
echo 'this is PROD content' >> gitmvtest/resources/prod/content.txt
git add .
git commit -m "master: update content.txt to include parent folder name"

[master 18d85f9] master: update content.txt to include parent folder name
 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+)


// Change back to the new branch and merge from master

git checkout newTestBranch
git merge master

Auto-merging gitmvtest/src/main/resources/prod/content.txt
Auto-merging gitmvtest/src/main/resources/dev/content.txt
Auto-merging gitmvtest/src/main/resources/demo/content.txt

Merge made by the 'recursive' strategy.
 gitmvtest/src/main/resources/demo/content.txt | 1 +
 gitmvtest/src/main/resources/dev/content.txt  | 1 +
 gitmvtest/src/main/resources/prod/content.txt | 1 +
 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+)


// SEE the ERROR:
//demo/content.txt wrongly merged with data from prod/content.txt

cat gitmvtest/src/main/resources/demo/content.txt

This is the line that contains the common content
this is PROD content

On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 4:51 PM, Bill Okara [off-list ref] wrote:

it actually does matter in the following scenario:

1) master branch has identical content.txt files in the folder structure
2) do the git mv in a new branch
3) master branch updated the context.txt to contain new data (more
relevant to the containing folder)
4) new branch need to merge the updates from master

after the merge, demo/content.txt in the new path would contain
updates from dev/content.txt from master...

On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 4:39 PM, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Bill Okara [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

just want to see if this is a bug, user error (on my end), or??

Not a bug, not a user error, just "it does not matter", I think.