Re: File extension conflict when working with git and latex

2014-03-22 Thread Torsten Bögershausen
On 2014-03-21 17.13, Matthias Beyer wrote: > Hi, > > I struggled with a really nasty issue today (and yesterday): > > I work on a semester project paper which is written in latex and > therefor version-controlled with git. We compile the document using > pdflatex, we automate the compiling with m

Re: File extension conflict when working with git and latex

2014-03-21 Thread Michael Haggerty
On 03/21/2014 07:32 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Matthias Beyer writes: > >> I know, I can fix this by fixing the clean task in my Makefile. But >> maybe someone somewhere on this world doesn't know the git internals >> as good as me (and, of course, my coworker). Is there _any chance >> at all_ t

Re: File extension conflict when working with git and latex

2014-03-21 Thread Junio C Hamano
Matthias Beyer writes: > I know, I can fix this by fixing the clean task in my Makefile. But > maybe someone somewhere on this world doesn't know the git internals > as good as me (and, of course, my coworker). Is there _any chance > at all_ that this gets mentioned somewhere, so others don't fal

Re: File extension conflict when working with git and latex

2014-03-21 Thread Simon Ruderich
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 05:46:51PM +0100, Matthias Beyer wrote: > Hi Simon, > > I think so. I executed: > > git fsck # reports N missing blobs, commits, trees and dangling stuff > git index-pack ... > git fsck # reports only dangling commits and blobs > > I don't know if this means that

Re: File extension conflict when working with git and latex

2014-03-21 Thread Matthias Beyer
On 21-03-2014 17:36:28, Simon Ruderich wrote: > On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 05:13:24PM +0100, Matthias Beyer wrote: > > Unfortunetely, we wrote our `make clean` task recursively. I think you > > can imagine what went wrong: The clean-task corrupted the repository, > > as it removed .idx files from with

Re: File extension conflict when working with git and latex

2014-03-21 Thread Simon Ruderich
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 05:13:24PM +0100, Matthias Beyer wrote: > Unfortunetely, we wrote our `make clean` task recursively. I think you > can imagine what went wrong: The clean-task corrupted the repository, > as it removed .idx files from within .git/. > > I lost work because of this ugly name co