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

[Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>]

On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 09:36 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 06:23:34PM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 09:03 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > > On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 03:45:01PM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > > > Fix update-cache to compare the blob of a symlink against the link-target
> > > > and not the file it points to. Also ignore all permissions applied to
> > > > links.
> > > > Thanks to Greg for recognizing this while he added our list of symlinks
> > > > back to the udev repository.
> > > 
> > > Hm, even with this patch applied (it's in Linus's tree right now), I
> > > still get the following with a clean checked out udev tree:
> > >  $ cg-diff
> > >  Index: test/sys/block/cciss!c0d0/device
> > >  ===================================================================
> > 
> > I can't reproduce this. Are you sure, that the git-core binaries are
> > called and not the cogito ones?
> > 
> >   git-update-cache --refresh
> >   git-diff-cache -r HEAD
> > from the core-git should print nothing.
> 
> 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...
> 
> Can you add a symlink to a local tree and see if you can duplicate this?

Works as it should be.
What happens when you throw away your old .git/index with?
  git-read-tree HEAD

Kay