From: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2011 22:26:55 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 1/3] t6022: New test checking for unnecessary updates of renamed+modified files
Message-ID: <AANLkTikG+DT3fz3ntqQAz7pzz+aDd2Q4db02C8ypQMx_@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4D6CA13C.1000006@viscovery.net>

Hi,

On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 12:33 AM, Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> wrote:
> Am 3/1/2011 2:08, schrieb Elijah Newren:
> Use
>        test-chmtime =1000000000 rename &&
<snip>
>        orig=$(test-chmtime -v +0 rename) &&
<snip>
>> +     git diff-files --exit-code # Is "rename" clean, or only racily clean?
>
> What you see here, is not "racily clean", but "stat dirty". "Racily clean"
> means that git thinks that the file is clean (because the stat information
> matches), but in fact the file content is not identical to the content
> recorded in the index.

Thanks for the suggestions and explanation; I've got it and Jeff's
suggestions incorporated.