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Subject: Re: git-write-tree strangeness
Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 12:39:03 -0700
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"Alex Riesen" <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:

> On 8/8/07, Steven Walter <stevenrwalter@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm importing a large repository from svn into git with a custom tool,
>> and I noticed a strange issue with one of the commits.
>>
>> Upon investigating further, I found that when I ran "git-write-tree"
>> followed immediately by "git-diff-index <tree>" I had differences.  Does
>> that mean that git-write-tree incorrectly recorded the index, or do I
>> misunderstand things?
>
> What kind of differences? Different sha1 of content?
> I can't simply reproduce it.

Isn't this simply just a dirty worktree and missing --cached
option?