From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 19:57:24 GMT
Subject: Re: git status: small difference between stating whole repository and small subdirectory
Message-ID: <7vmx8dl1ln.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <87ty2l38ay.fsf@thomas.inf.ethz.ch>

Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch> writes:

> test_expect_failure 'checkout gives cache-tree' '
> 	git checkout HEAD^ &&
> 	test_shallow_cache_tree
> '

Depending on what state you start the checkout from, that is not a valid
test.  Some form of "git reset" before the checkout to ensure the initial
state is needed.