Crash when committing a directory in place of a symlink

[Alexey Kotlyarov]

Binary package hint: gitg

I had a symlink to a folder under Git, decided to replace it with a directory (with files) by the same name. Gitg crashed.
How to reproduce:

$ git init
$ mkdir directory
$ touch directory/file
$ ln -s directory symlink
$ git commit -a -m first
$ rm symlink
$ mkdir symlink
$ touch symlink/another-file
Then start Gitg, and in the Commit tab stage another-file for commiting. Crash.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: gitg 0.0.5-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-23.37-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-23-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Jun 25 08:51:31 2010
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=ru_RU:ru:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=ru_RU.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gitg

[Christoph Buchner (bilderbuchi)]

I think you're missing a "git add ." after the symlinking step. Otherwise, I got a still-empty repo. commit -a only adds already tracked files.
Regardless, I can confirm this behaviour. It does not happen when you do it via command-line git.
gitg says
** ERROR **: Update index for stage failed
aborting...
upon crashing.

[Christoph Buchner (bilderbuchi)]

forgot to add: Using gitg 0.0.8 on Ubuntu 10.10 32bit

[Christoph Buchner (bilderbuchi)]

possibly an upstream bug here: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=642409