Fwd: Found a "bug" in git 1.9.0 but can't reproduce it without copyrighted source code.

From: yun sheng <uewing@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 28, 2014, 01:40 UTC
Message-ID: <CA+fYBFedYBPHLgO1mf31CuqKjWN0wbFj+Rmxq2Nm23HE0z8t_Q@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CA+fYBFdsp4z5T42wEiQ-0X88eK4UhJLx+Ofum_RYEf-g8a3SbA@mail.gmail.com>

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From: yun sheng <uewing@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 9:28 AM
Subject: Re: Found a "bug" in git 1.9.0 but can't reproduce it without
copyrighted source code.
To: Trần Ngọc Quân <vnwildman@gmail.com>

The result of sha1sum is different. Following is my console log

C:\shengy\tmp\shengyun\git-test>git init Initialized empty Git repository in C:/shengy/tmp/shengyun/git-test/.git/

C:\shengy\tmp\shengyun\git-test>copy
C:\shengy\Dropbox\tmp\git-issue\old\epmdstyp.h
        1 file(s) copied.

C:\shengy\tmp\shengyun\git-test>git add .

C:\shengy\tmp\shengyun\git-test>git commit -m 'init'
[master (root-commit) 579385e] 'init'
 1 file changed, 97 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 epmdstyp.h

C:\shengy\tmp\shengyun\git-test>sha1sum epmdstyp.h c2310fe32891dc7269298814475d0ad083c5483c *epmdstyp.h

C:\shengy\tmp\shengyun\git-test>copy
C:\shengy\Dropbox\tmp\git-issue\new\epmdstyp.h
Overwrite C:\shengy\tmp\shengyun\git-test\epmdstyp.h? (Yes/No/All): Y
        1 file(s) copied.

C:\shengy\tmp\shengyun\git-test>sha1sum epmdstyp.h 7a98d5161b5e5ae201997b40fa5d5cebe1d14d1c *epmdstyp.h

C:\shengy\tmp\shengyun\git-test>git status On branch master nothing to commit, working directory clean

C:\shengy\tmp\shengyun\git-test>

On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 9:04 AM, Trần Ngọc Quân <vnwildman@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 28/03/2014 07:45, yun sheng wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I found git sometimes can't detect working trees changes. But I can
>> only reproduce this problem on several specific files, unfortunately
>> these files are copyrighted source files so I can't send them to you.
>> Is there anything I can do to narrow the problem and finally reproduce
>> the bug without these commercial files?
>>
>> I posted a question on stackoverflow which shows the process.
>>
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22684163/cant-reproduce-a-bug-in-git-without-a-specific-file
>>
>> Actually what I'm doing is:
>>
>> git init
>> " copy the first version of file into the working tree.
>> git add .
>> git commit -m 'init'
>> " copy and replace the file into working tree.
>> git status
>>
>> and nothing is reported by git.
>>
>> these two files have the same timestamp, the same size, bug slightly
>> different contents. These files were generated by `git difftool -d` I
>> just manually copied them out from the temp directory just for future
>> review.
> Don't worry about copyright, please run sha1sum in order to make sure
> the content is changed!
>>
>> Git I'm using is msysgit 1.9.0 on windows 7
> Is it Ok on Linux OS, on other git version?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Sheng Yun
>> --
>>
>
> --
> Trần Ngọc Quân.
>