Christian Jaeger <christian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Today I've created custom Debian packages from Git for the first time (yes I know there are Debian packages already, I'm doing it so that I can patch Git and still have the convenience of a package system), I personally think that _you_ are responsible for doing the refresh yourself after becoming root, if you checkout as yourself and then build as root (or use fakeroot to build as if it is built as root). By the way "man fakeroot" says... -u, --unknown-is-real Use the real ownership of files previously unknown to fakeroot instead of pretending they are owned by root:root. which sounds like a sensible thing to do (I would even imagine that would be a sensible default for fakeroot in general), and I would imagine that would help. Not that an extra update-index --refresh would be a huge performance hit, but I hesitate to take a patch that adds something that should conceptually be unnecessary. -- 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