Re: [PATCH] fix compare symlink against readlink not data

From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Date: May 6, 2005, 17:19 UTC
Message-ID: <20050506171950.GA20132@kroah.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0505061009340.2233@ppc970.osdl.org>

On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 10:11:49AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> 
> On Fri, 6 May 2005, Greg KH wrote:
> > 
> > Odd.  If I reclone the whole tree from the udev kernel.org tree, then it
> > works just fine.  If I create a new copy of my local tree, I still have
> > the same problem.  Diffing the trees shows no difference in the objects
> > at all...
> 
> You've not updated your cache.
> 
> Guys, remember this command:
> 
> 	git-diff-files
> 
> Just like that, with no arguments. It shows you what is different in your 
> cache. If you get a lot of output, it means that your index file isn't 
> up-to-date.
> 
> The other magic command is
> 
> 	git-update-cache --refresh

Damm, I still was using update-cache and checkout-cache from an old git version. That was my problem.

Sorry for the noise, it works just fine.

thanks,

greg k-h