From: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:33:46 GMT
Subject: Re: git replace woes: dirty stat with clean workdir
Message-ID: <200911110033.46546.chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
In-Reply-To: <4AF992F8.8010309@drmicha.warpmail.net>

Hi,

On mardi 10 novembre 2009, Michael J Gruber wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> when cooking up a "warning example" for git replace (don't draw
> premature conclusions when there are replaced objects) I came across the
> following problem: git status seems to compare the work dir with the
> tree of HEAD, not the replacing tree. Even deleting the index does not
> help.

Yeah, you are right. I must say that I never tested replacing trees before.

> [ The example also shows that we need a way to specify
> --no-replace-objects for gitk. Would easier if gitk really where git
> something. ]

Yeah, I think --no-replace-objects might not work well for shell scripts or 
even commands that call other commands using run_command(). Perhaps we need 
an environment variable GIT_NO_REPLACE_OBJECTS to be set by commands that 
are passed --no-replace-objects and checked by all the commands. I will 
have a look at that.

Thanks,
Christian.