Victoria Dye <vdye@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > The strange thing is, once I fixed the 'mkdir' issue in my local copy of > these patches, these 'test_all_match diff-files' calls succeeded. It turns > out that 'git diff-files' in the 'full-checkout', like in 'sparse-checkout', > reports a difference in 'folder1/a' that doesn't actually exist. So the bug > isn't in sparse-checkout as I initially assumed [1], but rather in > diff-files itself. Is that a bug, or just a common "ah, you forgot to refresh the index"?