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Subject: Re: git diff --name-status does not always list changed files
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Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com> writes:

> ...
> so I decided to fix these files in my clean working tree with
>
> for i in `find . -iname "*.c" -o -iname "*.cc" -o -iname "*.cpp" -o
> -iname "*.h" -o -iname "*.hpp"`; do
>     echo $i
>     echo wq | ed $i > /dev/null 2>&1
> done
>
> Afterwards, I wanted so see a list of files that were actually
> affected, but to my wonderment "git diff --name-status" did not list
> any files, although both "git diff" and "gitk" showed the diffs
> correctly.

Doesn't reproduce for me.

        $ rm -fr /var/tmp/j && mkdir -p /var/tmp/j && cd /var/tmp/j
        $ git init
        Initialized empty Git repository in .git/
        $ echo -n hello > world
        $ git add world
        $ od -c world
        0000000   h   e   l   l   o
        0000005
        $ echo wq | ed world
        Newline appended
        6
        6
        $ od -c world
        0000000   h   e   l   l   o  \n
        0000006
        $ git diff --name-status
        M	world
        $ git diff --raw
        :100644 100644 b6fc4c6... 0000000... M	world
        $ exit