Hi Elijah,

On Fri, 5 Jan 2018, Elijah Newren wrote:

> t3501 had a testcase originally added in 05f2dfb965 (cherry-pick:
> demonstrate a segmentation fault, 2016-11-26) to ensure cherry-pick
> wouldn't segfault when working with a dirty file involved in a rename.
>
> While the segfault was fixed, there was another problem this test
> demonstrated: namely, that git would overwrite a dirty file involved in a
> rename.  Further, the test encoded a "successful merge" and overwriting of
> this file as correct behavior.

Whoops. Sorry about that. Thanks for the patch, looks obviously good (I
haven't read 3/3 yet, but figure that the error message stems from the
changes introduced in that patch).

Ciao,
Dscho

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