Jon LoeligerFolks,
I sort of got blindsided by committing (accidental) mode changes on a file that was also textually changed. Because it was textually changed, I happily expected 'git status' to show it as modified and subsequently 'git commit'-ed it.
Only after I 'git diff'-ed it later did I see that there was also a mode change on the file! Argh!
Secondarily, I think that the invisible file changes like this caused an eariler (yesterday-ish) confusion where an index looked clean, but was dirty due to stat issues and poor users (me) couldn't quite see why.
Originally, I was going to propose that git-ls-files be modified such that the mode and stat changes that ce_modified() correctly identifies as changing are somehow translated into output that "git status" shows the user per-file _in_addition_ to the normal "is modified" header. So I did this mod:
diff --git a/ls-files.c b/ls-files.c index df25c8c..3e7e55d 100644 --- a/ls-files.c +++ b/ls-files.c @@ -450,7 +450,7 @@ static void show_killed_files(void) } } -static void show_ce_entry(const char *tag, struct cache_entry *ce) +static void show_ce_entry(const char *tag, struct cache_entry *ce, int changed) { int len = prefix_len; int offset = prefix_offset; @@ -482,6 +482,14 @@ static void show_ce_entry(const char *ta fputs(tag, stdout); write_name_quoted("", 0, ce->name + offset, line_terminator, stdout); + if (changed & (MTIME_CHANGED | CTIME_CHANGED)) { + putchar(' '); + putchar('T'); + } + if (changed & MODE_CHANGED) { + putchar(' '); + putchar('M'); + } putchar(line_terminator); } else { @@ -541,7 +549,7 @@ static void show_files(void) continue; if (show_unmerged && !ce_stage(ce)) continue; - show_ce_entry(ce_stage(ce) ? tag_unmerged : tag_cached, ce); + show_ce_entry(ce_stage(ce) ? tag_unmerged : tag_cached, ce, 0); } } if (show_deleted | show_modified) { @@ -553,9 +561,13 @@ static void show_files(void) continue; err = lstat(ce->name, &st); if (show_deleted && err) - show_ce_entry(tag_removed, ce); - if (show_modified && ce_modified(ce, &st, 0)) - show_ce_entry(tag_modified, ce); + show_ce_entry(tag_removed, ce, 0); + if (show_modified) { + int changed = ce_modified(ce, &st, 0); + if (changed) + show_ce_entry(tag_modified, + ce, changed); + } } } } And with that, "git ls-file -m" showed a trailing T or M to indicate a "time" or a "mode" change happened on each file. However, 'git status' didn't show that output.... And that is because it is driven by the diffcore instead! So I _think_ diff_resolve_rename_copy() has to be consulted to get that DIFF_STATUS_MODIFIED indicator. Except that it is shared with the SHA1 compare too: else if (memcmp(p->one->sha1, p->two->sha1, 20) || p->one->mode != p->two->mode) p->status = DIFF_STATUS_MODIFIED; But I haven't tracked it back to see how to propagate that status back up to show_modified() in diff-files.c yet... Maybe there is an easier way...? jdl
