GNU bug report logs - #5078
23.1.50; vc broken

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Leo <sdl.web <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:50:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Leo <sdl.web <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #32 received at 5078 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> ics.uci.edu>
To: Leo <sdl.web <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 5078 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#5078: 23.1.50; vc broken
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:00:05 -0800 (PST)

Leo <sdl.web <at> gmail.com> writes:

  > On 2009-12-01 00:07 +0000, Dan Nicolaescu wrote:
  > > Please try to debug that function and figure out why it returns 'up-to-date. 
  > 
  > 
  > I set vc-git-state with edebug and then made some changes to the file.
  > The following are some return values inside vc-git-state. Does it give a
  > clue?
  > 
  > 1. (vc-git--call nil "add" "--refresh" "--" (file-relative-name file))
  > 
  > returns result: 128 (#o200, #x80, ?\200)
  > 
  > 2. (vc-git--run-command-string file "diff-index" "-z" "HEAD" "--")
  > 
  > returns empty string ""

It seems that git thinks there's no change, if you change that line to:

(vc-git--run-command-string file "diff-index" "-p" "-z" "HEAD" "--")

does it return the diff you've shown in a previous message?

  > If I clone the repo, the problem goes away.

Maybe something is corrupted in your tree, maybe comparing the 2 .git
directories could give some clues.
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