From: Björn Steinbrink Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:24:44 GMT Subject: [BUG?] Working tree getting out of date "spontaneously" Message-ID: <20090605122444.GA11035@atjola.homenet> Hi, can't make any sense out of this at all: doener@atjola:git (master) $ git reset --hard HEAD@{1} HEAD is now at b11cf09 Merge branch 'da/pretty-tempname' doener@atjola:git (master) $ git update-ref refs/remotes/origin/master HEAD doener@atjola:git (master) $ git pull From git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git b11cf09..6096d75 master -> origin/master Updating b11cf09..6096d75 Fast forward Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.2.txt | 12 +++++------- Documentation/git.txt | 7 ++++++- contrib/completion/git-completion.bash | 12 ++++++++++-- grep.c | 6 +++++- 4 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) doener@atjola:git (master) $ git diff-index --name-only HEAD doener@atjola:git (master) $ git diff-index --name-only --cached HEAD *wait a minute, doing nothing* doener@atjola:git (master) $ git diff-index --name-only HEAD Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.2.txt Documentation/git.txt contrib/completion/git-completion.bash grep.c doener@atjola:git (master) $ git diff-index --name-only --cached HEAD doener@atjola:git (master) $ git diff-index --stat HEAD 0 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) doener@atjola:git (master) $ git diff-index --name-only HEAD Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.2.txt Documentation/git.txt contrib/completion/git-completion.bash grep.c Running "git status" seems to fix things. Björn, confused