From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 04:14:34 GMT
Subject: Re: "git apply --check" successes but git am says "does not match index"
Message-ID: <20110816041434.GA5141@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vd3g6j8sc.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 09:10:43PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> > ... I wonder if "git rebase" actually
> > suffers from the same problem,...
> 
> Doesn't it require a spiffy clean work tree before even starting?

Ah, you're right. I was confused that the continue case called
update-index, but the regular case did not. But it calls
require_clean_work_tree, which refreshes the index (in addition to
checking the dirty state, of course). So it's fine.

-Peff