From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2011 21:50:03 GMT
Subject: Re: Cannot rewrite branch(es) with a dirty working directory
Message-ID: <20110901215003.GC16308@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <vpqmxeoqj61.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 07:14:30PM +0200, Matthieu Moy wrote:

> James Blackburn <jamesblackburn@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Is there a particular reason why filter-branch thinks the tree is
> > dirty,
> 
> No idea. It comes after a "git reset --hard", so it's supposed to be
> clean.

I wonder if there are racily clean entries[1] in the index, and
diff-index reports them as potential changes.

At any rate, filter-branch should probably be refreshing the index
before checking for dirtiness, which would give the correct answer
either way.

-Peff

[1] See Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt for more information.