James Blackburn <jamesblackburn@xxxxxxxxx> 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. > and status magically fixes this? The index is considered dirty if the stat information (timestamp) is different. "git status" updates the stat-cache to consider unmodified content as up-to-date. So, it's normal that a "git status" repairs the dirty index. -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html