On 3 November 2015 at 13:27, David Turner <dtur...@twopensource.com> wrote: > On Tue, 2015-11-03 at 12:59 +1300, Ch'Gans wrote: >> Hi there, >> >> We're using a script to verify that what we are building is clean >> against our git repository, for this we're using "git rev-parse >> --short HEAD" to get the current hash and "git diff-index --quiet >> HEAD" to check for local modification. > > See this note from the git diff-index man page: > Note > As with other commands of this type, git diff-index does not > actually look at the contents of the file at all. So maybe > kernel/sched.c hasn’t actually changed, and it’s just that > you > touched it. In either case, it’s a note that you need to git > update-index it to make the index be in sync. > > You can either add an update-index to your script, or use git status > --porcelain.
Hi David, I first tried "git update-index" but it didn't work. However "git update-index --refresh" seems to fix our problem. I didn't get why "--refresh" is needed thought, I'm really not familiar with the caching aspect of git. Anyway, I think that this fix is what I need right now. Thanks, Chris > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
