Re: git-diff not showing changes (corrupt repo?)

Junio C Hamano wrote:
 > Dan Zwell <dzwell@gmail.com> writes:
 >
 >> ... It is the same after I commit the new changes--at that point,
 >> "git-diff-tree HEAD^ HEAD -p" spits out a nice patch, but "git-diff
 >> HEAD^ HEAD" gives nothing.
 >
 > This part is most interesting.  They are both about comparing
 > two commits and do not interact with anything in the work tree
 > nor your index.
 >
 > ... Can you bisect it?
 >
I bisected twice to be sure, and have CC'd Martin Waitz on this (the 
issue is that some of my changes in a local repo are not being displayed 
by git-diff, either before or after they are committed, but git-status, 
git-whatchanged, and git-diff-tree all see that changes have been 
committed, and git-diff-files does see uncommitted changes).

e88ee2915493213ea0d0be64c542c090fefd4b33 is first bad commit
commit e88ee2915493213ea0d0be64c542c090fefd4b33
Author: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org>
Date:   Tue Oct 10 21:16:25 2006 +0200

     paginate git-diff by default

I discovered this problem on my 64 bit machine, but the problem does not occur on my 32 bit machine. That is not the only difference between the two computers, but it seems the most obvious culprit. The 64 bit machine may have different libraries than the other, as they are running different distros.

I noticed that this is a rather old (and very small) patch, and I don't quite understand how it could cause this problem. I could not revert the patch to fix the problem. I placed a stripped down version of the repository here: http://zwell.net/git-error.tar.gz. The problem is very easy to observe on my machine, though it looks like some machines do not exhibit it. What else can I do to help?

Dan