There has been a recent thread on the main git mailing list concerning the effect of special filters, particulalrly the internal CRLF conversion, for getting a lot of checks 'just right'.
Have a look for Torsten Bögershausen <tbo...@web.de> 's threads regarding CRLF handling etc. They may give a little bit more insight into how to create a carefully crafted test - it may even be that his patches solve the problem. -- Philip ----- Original Message ----- From: Jack Poon To: Git for human beings Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2016 7:21 PM Subject: [git-users] Re: 'git diff --name-status' reports difference for zero-byte file I know the problem exists both on PC and Mac. My team can replicated on two different PC running Windows 7 and 10. For Mac, I am using El Capitan, the git version I am using is version 2.8.2. I am seeing that. I have also confirmed with a separate group that worked on LFS, they have to do something special for this special case because they also use git filters. We use similar methodology for the team that implements LFS to create our filters. Maybe, you can help us to understand what we did wrong with the way we configure the filter. For below example, 'irongit' is the filter program we use. Here is what I did: % git add . % git commit -m "checking all things in" % git push All the above was executed successfully. Then, I do: % git diff <<<< nothing shows up % git diff --name status M 0-bytefile1 M 0-bytefile2 M 0-bytefile3 <<<<<< above only list zero byte file in my git repository. This is the modified ./git/config for the filters. [core] repositoryformatversion = 0 filemode = true bare = false logallrefupdates = true ignorecase = true precomposeunicode = true [remote "origin"] url = ssh://git@xxxx.yyyyzzzz:1234/myproject/repo.git fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/* [branch "master"] remote = origin merge = refs/heads/master [filter "atcipher"] smudge = irongit decrypt %f clean = irongit encrypt %f required = true [diff "atcipher"] textconv = cat [merge "atcipher"] name = irongit merge driver driver = irongit merge %O %A %B %P On Thursday, May 5, 2016 at 8:28:43 AM UTC-7, Jack Poon wrote: Hi, We are working on an add-on over git using git filters, and testing other tools that encapsulate Git. For some reason, git reports that there is difference for any zero-byte when git filters are used. Is this a feature or bug? What's the suggested workaround? Best regards, Jack -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.