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Re: git-write-tree strangeness

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Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 8, 2007, 16:10 UTC
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On 8/8/07, Steven Walter <stevenrwalter@gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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.

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