Re: Git diff-file bug?

2012-10-03 Thread Scott Batchelor
Many thanks to all who have responded to my question. I have found that something is, indeed, modifying the inodes for all the files in my repository. Our systems administrator executes a backup using tar with the --atime-preserve flag. It is this flag that modifies the changed time in the inode,

Re: Git diff-file bug?

2012-10-03 Thread Drew Northup
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 4:04 AM, Scott Batchelor scott.batche...@gmail.com wrote: Many thanks to all who have responded to my question. I have found that something is, indeed, modifying the inodes for all the files in my repository. Our systems administrator executes a backup using tar with the

Re: Git diff-file bug?

2012-09-28 Thread Jeff King
On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 07:55:10PM +0100, Scott Batchelor wrote: I'm fairly new to git and am witnessing some strange behavior with git that I suspect may be a bug. Can anyone set my mind at rest. It's not a bug. Every so often (I've not quite figured out the exact set of circumstances yet)