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Re: git-status producing incorrect results

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Feb 14, 2008, 16:54 UTC
Message-ID
<20080214165432.GA28059@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To
<alpine.LSU.1.00.0802141650080.30505@racer.site>
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 04:51:04PM +0000, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> I experienced the same bug, but when I looked in the tests, I had the 
> impression that it tested for that very bug, and succeeded.  And I did not 
> have time to look into it further.
Which test did you think was checking for it?
> Speaking of tests... How about it?

I included a "from scratch" test case in my last message which I think helps in understanding what's happening. But if we just want to test this condition (it fails because there is a new file that is added but not committed):

diff --git a/t/t7502-status.sh b/t/t7502-status.sh
index b64ce30..11e5655 100755
--- a/t/t7502-status.sh
+++ b/t/t7502-status.sh
@@ -128,4 +128,8 @@ test_expect_success 'status without relative paths' '
 
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'status of partial commit excluding new file in index' '
+	git status modified
+'
+
 test_done
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