From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 19:39:03 GMT
Subject: Re: git-write-tree strangeness
Message-ID: <7vabt14y08.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0708080910u3aee166fo92ea73a4a0a78ccf@mail.gmail.com>

"Alex Riesen" <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:

> On 8/8/07, Steven Walter <stevenrwalter@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm importing a large repository from svn into git with a custom tool,
>> and I noticed a strange issue with one of the commits.
>>
>> Upon investigating further, I found that when I ran "git-write-tree"
>> followed immediately by "git-diff-index <tree>" I had differences.  Does
>> that mean that git-write-tree incorrectly recorded the index, or do I
>> misunderstand things?
>
> What kind of differences? Different sha1 of content?
> I can't simply reproduce it.

Isn't this simply just a dirty worktree and missing --cached
option?