From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: David Reitter <david.reitter@gmail.com>
Cc: Emacs development discussions <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: vc-git: workaround for "file unregistered" problem
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:39:23 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvpr7nhhy6.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D556AC45-161C-4A7B-89B3-FF808A2F22C9@gmail.com> (David Reitter's message of "Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:44:53 -0500")
> In some circumstances, git fails to report the status of files and
> pretends they are unregistered. One symptom can be that vc-git will
> try to add the file a second time. I have inquired about this on the
> Git list [1], but received no response - I'm not sure if this is a bug
> in git.
Can you report it as a bug?
> Either way, specifying full paths works around the problem, and the
> patch below does that for those who encounter similar issues.
It looks acceptable, exept that, like all patches which try to work
around a problem, it should come with a corresponding comment.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-12 15:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-12 13:44 vc-git: workaround for "file unregistered" problem David Reitter
2009-11-12 15:39 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2009-11-12 15:57 ` David Reitter
2009-11-12 17:08 ` Stefan Monnier
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