Re: Schrödinger's diff

> Sometimes it does, and sometimes it doesn't (seems to be about
> 50/50).  But either way in any given repo rerunning the git-diff will
> always give the same result.
> 
> Doing an "git ls-tree HEAD" gives an identical tree in both cases.
> 
> Can anyone explain why the output to this is not deterministic?
> I'm at a complete loss.
> 
> 	# Clean up from last run and start over
> 	rm -rf .git has-crlf
> 	git init
> 	git config core.autocrlf false
> 
> 	# Add a "bad" file
> 	perl -e 'printf( "12%c%c", 0xd, 0xa )' > has-crlf
> 	git add has-crlf
> 	git commit -m"add crlf"
> 
> 	# I realize that switching is ill-advised, but I'm
> 	# trying to track down a possibly related problem...
> 	git config core.autocrlf true
> 
> 	# This sometimes produces output and sometimes it doesn't.
> 	# Either way rerunning just git-diff always gives the same result
> 	# as the first run in this repo.
> 	git diff