Syslinux - Jul 2008 - gen-id.sh and git

Hello,

i just tried syslinux-3.71-pre5-3-g852d962 and got a question about gen-id.sh:

$ cd git/syslinux/
git/syslinux$ git pull
Already up-to-date.

git/syslinux$ cd core
git/syslinux/core$ ../gen-id.sh
g-852d962e

$ cp -a git/syslinux syslinux-3.71-pre5-3-g852d962

$ cd syslinux-3.71-pre5-3-g852d962/core
syslinux-3.71-pre5-3-g852d962/core$ ../gen-id.sh
g*852d962e

* means modified, is this correct?

syslinux-3.71-pre5-3-g852d962/core$ git diff
syslinux-3.71-pre5-3-g852d962/core$ ../gen-id.sh
g-852d962e

no longer marked as modified?

There is a difference in the output of "git diff-index --name-only
HEAD"
before and after the "git diff" command. Can someone please explain me
what i am doing wrong here? I am using git version 1.5.5.4.

Thanks,
Sebastian

Op 08-07-2008 om 16:09 schreef Sebastian Herbszt:
> There is a difference in the output of "git diff-index --name-only
HEAD"
> before and after the "git diff" command. Can someone please
explain me
> what i am doing wrong here? I am using git version 1.5.5.4.
I think/assume/gues it is git doing smart things with information from
the filesystem ( inode numbers and such )

The first `git diff-index` sees differences between filesystem info and
info in the .git directory.

`git diff` updates the information in .git/

The second `git diff-index` wouldn't see any difference between actual
fs info and info in .git/


Cheers
Geert Stappers