From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 16:23:34 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix compare symlink against readlink not data
Message-ID: <1115396614.32065.23.camel@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <20050506160359.GB6904@kroah.com>

On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 09:03 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 03:45:01PM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > Fix update-cache to compare the blob of a symlink against the link-target
> > and not the file it points to. Also ignore all permissions applied to
> > links.
> > Thanks to Greg for recognizing this while he added our list of symlinks
> > back to the udev repository.
> 
> Hm, even with this patch applied (it's in Linus's tree right now), I
> still get the following with a clean checked out udev tree:
>  $ cg-diff
>  Index: test/sys/block/cciss!c0d0/device
>  ===================================================================

I can't reproduce this. Are you sure, that the git-core binaries are
called and not the cogito ones?

  git-update-cache --refresh
  git-diff-cache -r HEAD
from the core-git should print nothing.

Thanks,
Kay