Re: git-status producing incorrect results

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Feb 14, 2008, 16:51 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0802141650080.30505@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <20080214164505.GA21932@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Hi,

On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Jeff King wrote:

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> There seems to be a bug in "git-status" in next (but not in master). I
> bisected it to:
> 
>   commit d1f2d7e8ca65504722108e2db710788f66c34c6c
>   Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
>   Date:   Sat Jan 19 17:27:12 2008 -0800
> 
>   Make run_diff_index() use unpack_trees(), not read_tree()
> 
> Basically, doing a partial commit when a new file has been added to the
> index but isn't part of the partial commit will cause that new file to
> be listed as part of the index.

I experienced the same bug, but when I looked in the tests, I had the impression that it tested for that very bug, and succeeded. And I did not have time to look into it further.

Speaking of tests... How about it?

Ciao, Dscho