Re: [PATCH] fix compare symlink against readlink not data

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: May 6, 2005, 17:11 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0505061009340.2233@ppc970.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050506163603.GA17766@kroah.com>

On Fri, 6 May 2005, Greg KH wrote:

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> 
> Odd.  If I reclone the whole tree from the udev kernel.org tree, then it
> works just fine.  If I create a new copy of my local tree, I still have
> the same problem.  Diffing the trees shows no difference in the objects
> at all...

You've not updated your cache.

Guys, remember this command:

	git-diff-files

Just like that, with no arguments. It shows you what is different in your cache. If you get a lot of output, it means that your index file isn't up-to-date.

The other magic command is

	git-update-cache --refresh

and you need to do that after you merge.

If you use cogito, and cogito doesn't refresh after pulls etc, that would be a cogito bug. But if you do things like "cp -a" of a git tree, and you forget to refresh the cache in the new tree, than that is _your_ bug..

		Linus