[vtk-developers] ANN: VTK modularization - merging this Monday

[David Gobbi]

On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 10:02 AM, Marcus D. Hanwell
<marcus.hanwell at kitware.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 11:58 AM, David Gobbi <david.gobbi at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Brad King <brad.king at kitware.com> wrote:
>>> On 4/9/2012 11:47 AM, David Gobbi wrote:
>>>>
>>>> error: The following untracked working tree files would be overwritten
>>>> by checkout:
>>>>        Utilities/KWSys/CMakeLists.txt
>>>>
>>>> The file in question was not removed by the following commit, should
>>>> it have been?
>>>> c13ff7ba Remove monolithic VTK files not used after modularization
>>>
>>>
>>> It is moved to Utilities/KWSys/vtksys/CMakeLists.txt by the next
>>> commit after that.  Then the "Add" commit adds a new one in the
>>> old location with different content.
>>>
>>> The modularization transition touches a huge number of files.
>>> Do not try to pull it into a tree with local mods.
>>
>> My tree had no local mods.  Perhaps my git has bugs (git version 1.7.5.1).
>> When I merged each new commit individually, instead of using "git pull",
>> everything worked perfectly.
>>
> That is really odd, I did a git pull on the Mac using Snow Leopard,
> case insensitive normal file system and git 1.7.9. I also tried the
> same on Windows 7, NTFS and git 1.7.4 without issue. It should not be
> necessary to individually merge the new commits, and on Linux the
> paths are normally distinct due to the case sensitive file system.

Updating to git 1.7.9 didn't solve the problem, but I re-cloned my VTK
and now I can switch back and forth without any errors.  So it was
something wrong with either my local repository or my tree.

 - David