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Re: False positives in git diff-index

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Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 5, 2011, 06:07 UTC
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On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 05:48, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 12:45:33PM +0300, Alexander Gladysh wrote:
>> > Anyway, I'm ready to debug this issue if someone will guide me.
> If adding a sleep makes it work, that sounds like a race condition in
> git. But from the description of your workflow, it should be easy to
> make a minimal example:
> -- 8< --
> Basically, we generate random data which has a 20% chance of
> being the same as what's there. When it is, we should get "not bothering
> to commit", but in your error case, we would try to commit (and get "no
> changes").
> But using that script, I can't replicate your problem. Can you try
> running it on the same box you're having trouble with? That might at
> least tell us if it's your environment or something more complex going
> on.
Thank you. I tried it, and, unfortunately, it does not reproduce the problem.
Alexander.
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