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Uwe Schindler updated LUCENE-6658:
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    Attachment: LUCENE-6658.patch

Here is a patch to make IndexUpgrader force a commit (I had to use a trick: 
supplying empty commit metadata to provoke a change).

I have not yet added a test (I would need to create some older "empty" 
index...).

This patch could also be applied to 4.10.5, but I don't think we get a 3.6 
anymore. [~trejkaz] - can you try this out and see if it helps. Maybe apply the 
patch also to older versions.

[~mikemccand]: Do you think this is good? Or is there a better solution to 
enforce a commit, so all metadata of empty index is rewritten?

> IndexUpgrader doesn't upgrade an index if it has zero segments
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>
>                 Key: LUCENE-6658
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-6658
>             Project: Lucene - Core
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: core/index
>    Affects Versions: 4.10.4, 5.2.1
>            Reporter: Trejkaz
>         Attachments: LUCENE-6658.patch
>
>
> IndexUpgrader uses merges to do its job. Therefore, if you use it to upgrade 
> an index with no segments, it will do nothing - it won't even update the 
> version numbers in the segments file, meaning that later versions of Lucene 
> will fail to open the index, despite the fact that you "upgraded" it.
> The suggested workaround when this was raised on the mailing list in January 
> seems to be to use filesystem magic to look at the files, figure out whether 
> there are any segments, and write a new empty index if there are none.
> This sounds easy, but there are probably traps. For instance, there might be 
> files in the directory which don't really belong to the index. Earlier 
> versions of Lucene used to have a FilenameFilter which was usable to 
> distinguish one from the other, but that seems to have disappeared, making it 
> less obvious how to do this.
> This issue is presumed to exist in 3.x as well, I just haven't encountered it 
> yet because the only empty indices I have hit have been later versions.



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