Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> writes:
> Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclo...@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> 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 some diff case, stat is not involved 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().
>>
>> Only enable it when worktree is involved: "diff" and "diff <rev>".
>> This should help track down how skip_stat_unmatch is actually used
>> when bugs occur.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclo...@gmail.com>
>> ---
>> This replaces 'diff: turn off skip_stat_unmatch on "diff --cached"'
>> The previous patch obviously leaves skip_stat_unmatch on in "diff
>> <rev> <rev>" and maybe other cases.
>
> Oops, I lost track. Sorry.
Together with {1,2}/3 applied on maint-1.8.4, this sems to break
t3417 (there may be others, but I didn't have time to check).
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