Re: git-diff not showing changes (corrupt repo?)

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Oct 3, 2007, 03:44 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0710022041340.3579@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <470309D5.702@gmail.com>

On Tue, 2 Oct 2007, Dan Zwell wrote:

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> I bisected twice to be sure, and have CC'd Martin Waitz on this (the issue is
> that some of my changes in a local repo are not being displayed by git-diff,
> either before or after they are committed, but git-status, git-whatchanged,
> and git-diff-tree all see that changes have been committed, and git-diff-files
> does see uncommitted changes).
> 
> e88ee2915493213ea0d0be64c542c090fefd4b33 is first bad commit

You most likely have a very buggy "less".

Try this:

	echo hello | less -FRSX

on the command line. Do you see the "hello"?

(The above is assuming you haven't set GIT_PAGER, PAGER or the LESS variables manually to something else)

		Linus