From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix compare symlink against readlink not data Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 10:19:51 -0700 Message-ID: <20050506171950.GA20132@kroah.com> References: <20050506134501.GA11430@vrfy.org> <20050506160359.GB6904@kroah.com> <1115396614.32065.23.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050506163603.GA17766@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Kay Sievers , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri May 06 19:14:17 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DU6O7-0003wQ-Pj for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 06 May 2005 19:13:20 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261218AbVEFRT7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 May 2005 13:19:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261224AbVEFRT7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 May 2005 13:19:59 -0400 Received: from mail.kroah.org ([69.55.234.183]:62103 "EHLO perch.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261218AbVEFRT4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 May 2005 13:19:56 -0400 Received: from [192.168.0.10] (c-24-22-118-199.hsd1.or.comcast.net [24.22.118.199]) (authenticated) by perch.kroah.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id j46HJoi06832; Fri, 6 May 2005 10:19:50 -0700 Received: from greg by echidna.kroah.org with local (masqmail 0.2.19) id 1DU6UR-5FS-00; Fri, 06 May 2005 10:19:51 -0700 To: Linus Torvalds Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.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