From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 06:25:13 GMT
Subject: Re: git bugs
Message-ID: <20080614062513.GA24508@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vbq25j5ke.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 04:09:05PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> When telling apply to affect index and work tree at the same time (that is
> what --index means), the caller must make sure that the diff-files won't
> report stale stat information.

Ah, I had assumed that git-apply would notice the stale stat information
and fall back to checking the content, which should be accurate.

> I think "reset --hard" without ">empty" is enough as the head commit
> records an empty blob there.

Yes, it is redundant. With your patch I was not able to reproduce the
problem over a few thousand trials.

-Peff