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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Peter Eckersley <peter.eckersley@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Weirdness with git change detection
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2017 08:57:56 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqy3rv2cfv.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOYJvnJ1FxevnWf+Aj0-5r6WfmfPkzWhOk_n4y4Yz7HvvfvaBQ@mail.gmail.com> (Peter Eckersley's message of "Mon, 10 Jul 2017 16:45:12 -0700")

Peter Eckersley <peter.eckersley@gmail.com> writes:

> I have a local git repo that's in some weird state where changes
> appear to be detected by "git diff" and prevent operations like "git
> checkout" from switching branches, but those changes are not removed
> by a "git reset --hard" or "git stash".
>
> Here's an example of the behaviour, with "git reset --hard" failing to
> clear a diff in the index:
>
> https://paste.debian.net/975811/
>
> Happy to collect additional debugging information if it's useful.

Do you have any funny clean-smudge pair that do not round-trip?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-07-11 15:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-07-10 23:45 Weirdness with git change detection Peter Eckersley
2017-07-11  4:15 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2017-07-11  7:06   ` Jeff King
2017-07-11  7:31     ` Peter Eckersley
2017-07-11  7:34       ` Jeff King
2017-07-11  8:20         ` Torsten Bögershausen
2017-07-11  8:24           ` Jeff King
2017-08-18  6:56             ` Michael J Gruber
2017-08-18 11:57               ` Jeff King
2017-07-11 15:57 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2017-07-11 16:04   ` Junio C Hamano

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