On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Aubrey wrote:
>
> I'm using suse9.3. The filesystem is EXT3.
Ok, something else is going on. There's no way ext3 can get confused about
times that I can see.
> I think I forgot one thing last night. When I changed the file, I
> compiled the package to verify my modification. It should be the
> reason. But should it really affect the result of "git diff"?
Nope. Something else is happening.
If you can re-create this at will, it would be interesting to see _what_
makes git think you've modified a file. A small mod to "read-cache.c" like
the appended patch should give you (very very verbose) output that could
help us figure this out.
Linus
----
diff --git a/read-cache.c b/read-cache.c
index f97f92d..4946163 100644
--- a/read-cache.c
+++ b/read-cache.c
@@ -183,6 +183,8 @@ int ce_match_stat(struct cache_entry *ce
index_file_timestamp <= ntohl(ce->ce_mtime.sec))
changed |= ce_modified_check_fs(ce, st);
+if (changed) error("changed: 0x%x %s", changed, ce->name);
+
return changed;
}
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