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git diff --name-status does not always list changed files

From
Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 28, 2008, 14:47 UTC
Message-ID
<fq6hhi$cub$1@ger.gmane.org>
Hi,

I was getting a lot of "no newline at end of file" warnings with GCC, so I decided to fix these files in my clean working tree with

for i in `find . -iname "*.c" -o -iname "*.cc" -o -iname "*.cpp" -o 
-iname "*.h" -o -iname "*.hpp"`; do
     echo $i
     echo wq | ed $i > /dev/null 2>&1
done

Afterwards, I wanted so see a list of files that were actually affected, but to my wonderment "git diff --name-status" did not list any files, although both "git diff" and "gitk" showed the diffs correctly.

Is this a bug in "--name-status" that is does not detected changes if only a final newline has been added, or am I missing something?

Thanks.
-- 
Sebastian Schuberth
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