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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Cc: James Blackburn <jamesblackburn@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Cannot rewrite branch(es) with a dirty working directory
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 17:50:03 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110901215003.GC16308@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vpqmxeoqj61.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 07:14:30PM +0200, Matthieu Moy wrote:

> James Blackburn <jamesblackburn@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Is there a particular reason why filter-branch thinks the tree is
> > dirty,
> 
> No idea. It comes after a "git reset --hard", so it's supposed to be
> clean.

I wonder if there are racily clean entries[1] in the index, and
diff-index reports them as potential changes.

At any rate, filter-branch should probably be refreshing the index
before checking for dirtiness, which would give the correct answer
either way.

-Peff

[1] See Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt for more information.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-01 21:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-01 15:52 Cannot rewrite branch(es) with a dirty working directory James Blackburn
2011-09-01 17:14 ` Matthieu Moy
2011-09-01 21:50   ` Jeff King [this message]
2011-09-01 21:53     ` Jeff King
2011-09-02  5:52       ` Matthieu Moy

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