On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 3:25 PM, Elijah Newren [off-list ref] wrote:

This fixes an issue that existed before my directory rename detection
patches that affects both normal renames and renames implied by
directory rename detection.  Additional codepaths that only affect
overwriting of directy files that are involved in directory rename
detection will be added in a subsequent commit.

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <redacted>

So this fixes bugs in the current rename detection with
overwriting untracked files? Then this is an additional
selling point of this series, maybe worth covering in the
cover letter!