Re: [PATCH v2] unpack-trees: do not abort when overwriting an existing file with the same content

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On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 6:15 AM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Can you elaborate on when this code is triggered?
>
> In the general case, shouldn't we already know the sha1 of what's on
> disk in the index, and be able to just compare the hashes? And if we
> don't, because the entry is start-dirty, should we be updating it
> (possibly earlier, so we do not even get into the "need to write" code
> path) instead of doing this ad-hoc byte comparison?
>
> Confused...

git reset HEAD~10
# blah that was a mistake, undo it
git checkout HEAD@{1}

I hit it a few times, probably not with the exact recipe above though.
-- 
Duy
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