Re: [PATCH] describe: refresh the index when 'broken' flag is used

From: Abhijeet Sonar <abhijeet.nkt@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 25, 2024, 06:40 UTC
Message-ID: <89951829-80f3-482f-87d1-d88c12a2575d@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqsex2b4ti.fsf@gitster.g>

 > So I still do not understand why you > want a second user in this 
test. What I really wanted to do was closely mirror the environment in 
reproduction steps mentioned in original bug report. Which I figured 
could be done by changing the owner to a second user.

On 24/06/24 23:28, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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>      $ git describe --dirty --broken
>      v2.45.2-862-g39ba10deb2
>      $ cat COPYING >RENAMING && mv RENAMING COPYING
>      $ git diff-index --abbrev=8 HEAD
>      :100644 100644 536e5552 00000000 M	COPYING
>      $ git describe --dirty --broken
>      v2.45.2-862-g39ba10deb2-dirty
>      $ git describe --dirty
>      v2.45.2-862-g39ba10deb2

Thanks, I will use this in the tests.