Git pull does not delete files

[bmiller]

The git pull operation for the beq files repo does not delete files when one is renamed. A couple recent examples are John Wick 2, Underworld Blood Wars, or Ralph Breaks the Internet. The files for all three were renamed during updates.

It looks like this is an issue with porcelain's pull function from the research I've done so far. I wanted to get it documented as a known issue here. I'm looking for a solution to it since it's affecting the browser app too.

[3ll3d00d]

looks like jelmer/dulwich#452

[bmiller]

Yeah, I saw that bug the other night when I was looking into it. I forgot to reference it. It's what lead me to believe that it's a porcelain issue and not BEQDesigner's use of it.

[3ll3d00d]

jelmer/dulwich#588 has a possible workaround for something that looks a bit more like a working git reset --hard

[JanSam]

As discussed in the avs thread lately, a button to purge the BEQ files(under preferences) would be great too, not just for the merge portion of the BEQd.

[bmiller]

@3ll3d00d have you looked into pygit2 before? It uses libgit2 under the hood which complicates things a little for building. I was going to use it with a Swift library for the iOS app I'm working on and thought of checking on it for BEQd. I could port my iOS stuff to python after I do it if there wasn't going to be issues doing so.

[3ll3d00d]

a quick search suggests it has it's own problems as well as bringing packaging complexity inc the need to build from source on MacOS (e.g. iterative/dvc#2215),