Petr Baudis <pasky@xxxxxxx> writes: > On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 03:20:46AM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote: >> On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, Petr Baudis wrote: >> > I want to make sure the whole index entry is intact, not just the sha1. >> >> "rev-parse :dirty" will have to read the index to get at the object name >> of "dirty". So there you have your index validation for you. > > it will test if the entry stays _valid_, but not whether it stays the > _same_. You are right. You would want to catch breakages like a file losing its executable bits, which you cannot detect by grabbing "rev-parse :dirty" and comparing it with the expected value. -- 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
