git replace woes: dirty stat with clean workdir

Hi there,

when cooking up a "warning example" for git replace (don't draw premature conclusions when there are replaced objects) I came across the following problem: git status seems to compare the work dir with the tree of HEAD, not the replacing tree. Even deleting the index does not help.

[ The example also shows that we need a way to specify --no-replace-objects for gitk. Would easier if gitk really where git something. ]

Michael

#!/bin/sh rm -Rf rtest && mkdir rtest && cd rtest && git init && echo > comment && git add comment && git commit -m "empty comment" && echo nice > "comment" && git commit -am "nice comment" && echo ugly > "comment" && git commit -am "to be discarded" && git replace HEAD^^{tree} HEAD^{tree} && git reset --hard HEAD^ && git log -p && git st