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

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

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?

thanks,

greg k-h