From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix compare symlink against readlink not data
Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 10:19:51 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050506171950.GA20132@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0505061009340.2233@ppc970.osdl.org>
On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 10:11:49AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, 6 May 2005, Greg KH wrote:
> >
> > 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...
>
> You've not updated your cache.
>
> Guys, remember this command:
>
> git-diff-files
>
> Just like that, with no arguments. It shows you what is different in your
> cache. If you get a lot of output, it means that your index file isn't
> up-to-date.
>
> The other magic command is
>
> git-update-cache --refresh
Damm, I still was using update-cache and checkout-cache from an old git
version. That was my problem.
Sorry for the noise, it works just fine.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-06 17:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-06 13:45 [PATCH] fix compare symlink against readlink not data Kay Sievers
2005-05-06 16:03 ` Greg KH
2005-05-06 16:23 ` Kay Sievers
2005-05-06 16:36 ` Greg KH
2005-05-06 16:59 ` Kay Sievers
2005-05-06 17:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-05-06 17:19 ` Greg KH [this message]
2005-05-06 16:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-05-06 16:37 ` Greg KH
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