Re: git > 2.10.1 fails to update index on macOS 10.14.5

[Jonathan Smalls <jon@smalls.rocks>]

I also need to specify, it looks like I was on git version 2.21.0, not 
2.22.0.

On 3/24/20 19:59, brian m. carlson wrote:
> Does running "ls -l" on the file before and after show different
> timestamps and file sizes? 

Changing the index file updated the file modification time appropriately.

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Mar30 0715.19 [jsmalls:~/Documents … c310/lorenzCurve] master+
     >> vim index.py

     Mar30 0715.31 [jsmalls:~/Documents … c310/lorenzCurve] master+ 8s
     >> ls -l
total 56
-rw-r--r--  1 jsmalls  staff   1650 Mar 30 07:15 index.py
-rw-r--r--@ 1 jsmalls  staff  16878 Mar 29 20:10 lorenzCurve.png
-rw-r--r--@ 1 jsmalls  staff   1800 Mar 26 09:05 pop2010.npy

Does "git config -l | grep -iE 'checkstat|ctime'"
> show anything? Can you use the stat(1) command to tell us whether the
> change results in a device or inode number change (if that's possible
> using the macOS version)?

The git config command returns an empty result. I am not sure what I 
should see in the stat command, but I have included the result here.

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Mar30 0715.40 [jsmalls:~/Documents … c310/lorenzCurve] master+
     >> git config -l | grep -iE 'checkstat|ctime'

     Mar30 0716.19 [jsmalls:~/Documents … c310/lorenzCurve] master+ 1
     >> stat
1054203952 723 crw--w---- 1 jsmalls tty 268435456 0 "Mar 30 07:16:43 
2020" "Mar 30 07:16:43 2020" "Mar 30 07:16:43 2020" "Dec 31 19:00:00 
1969" 131072 0 0 (stdin)