From: Jeff King Date: Fri, 07 May 2010 05:00:54 GMT Subject: Re: change in behaviour of git status and/or gitk bug Message-ID: <20100507050054.GA25987@coredump.intra.peff.net> In-Reply-To: On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 06:20:34PM -0700, Chris Packham wrote: > I noticed a while back that with gitk I kept on getting files shown as > "Local uncommitted changes, not checked in to index" when I'd made > modifications to them then backed them out so the working tree content > was the same as the index. I used to (with git 1.6.x) fix / work > around this by running git status. > > Now, with git 1.7.1, that workaround has stopped working. No doubt This was lost in v1.7.0, but should be back in v1.7.2. The actual fix is 4bb6644 (git status: refresh the index if possible, 2010-04-02). You can run "git update-index --refresh" to get the same effect. Running "git diff" also works. There was some talk (and a patch) recently about gitk running "update-index --refresh", but I don't know if it got picked up. See: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/144182 -Peff