From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 08:01:45 GMT
Subject: Re: git bug?
Message-ID: <42A7F769.2050800@pobox.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vzmu0otg8.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Jeff, I assume you are talking about this part:
> 
> 
>>>diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/minicache.c b/arch/arm/mm/minicache.c
>>>deleted file mode 100644
>>>diff --git a/drivers/scsi/libata-core.c b/drivers/scsi/libata-core.c
> 
> 
> that does not have anything between "deleted file..." and the
> next diff about libata-core.c.
> 
> In short, this is not really a "bug", but I am open to
> suggestions for improvements (but you need to talk Linus into
> accepting the changes, because changing this would also affect
> his "git-apply" program as well).

It's a bug and a new behavior.

'git-diff-cache -p HEAD' should not show files that I have not modified.

This screws up
	git-diff-cache -p HEAD | diffstat -p1 | awk '{print $1}'
for example.

	Jeff