skip_stat_unmatch flag is added in fb13227 (git-diff: squelch "empty" diffs - 2007-08-03) to ignore empty diffs caused by stat-only dirtiness. In "diff --cached" case, stat is not invovled at all. While the code is written in a way that no expensive I/O is done, we still need to move all file pairs from the old queue to the new queue in diffcore_skip_stat_unmatch(). Avoid it. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> --- builtin/diff.c | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/builtin/diff.c b/builtin/diff.c index 0f247d2..85f97d7 100644 --- a/builtin/diff.c +++ b/builtin/diff.c @@ -150,9 +150,10 @@ static int builtin_diff_index(struct rev_info *revs, perror("read_cache_preload"); return -1; } - } else if (read_cache() < 0) { - perror("read_cache"); - return -1; + } else { + if (read_cache() < 0) + return error("read_cache: %s", strerror(errno)); + revs->diffopt.skip_stat_unmatch = 0; } return run_diff_index(revs, cached); } -- 1.8.5.2.240.g8478abd -- 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