git-write-tree strangeness

From: Steven Walter <stevenrwalter@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 8, 2007, 15:42 UTC
Message-ID: <20070808154211.GA25015@dervierte>

I'm importing a large repository from svn into git with a custom tool, and I noticed a strange issue with one of the commits.

Upon investigating further, I found that when I ran "git-write-tree" followed immediately by "git-diff-index <tree>" I had differences. Does that mean that git-write-tree incorrectly recorded the index, or do I misunderstand things?

I just wanted to verify that I have at least some clue what is going on before I dig too much deeper into this issue. I'm running git-1.5.3-rc4; I'll see if it occurs with 1.5.2 and bisect if not.

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