From: "D. Ben Knoble" <ben.knoble@gmail.com>
To: Git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: diff --cached --no-ext-diff --find-copies-harder --quiet exits with wrong status code
Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2025 14:05:47 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALnO6CBsj+aMvHJoUQ+LHAtXhcFhQeH8AuHyrX+rumur6MQQog@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
AFAICT, you need all of the mentioned options to trigger the bug.
Allowing ext-diff works fine, I don't think it's triggered in
non-cached diffs, and I've never seen it without --find-copies-harder.
Notably, s/quiet/exit-code works just fine.
Here's a repro from git.git:
cp git{,1}.c
git add git1.c
git diff --cached --no-ext-diff --quiet --find-copies-harder &&
echo 'this should exit 1!'
(And of course, ^quiet^exit-code if your shell supports it yields a
different outcome)
Context: my distro applies a patch that allows
diff.renames=copies-harder. In a repo with that turned on,
git-prompt.sh stopped showing some staged changes. Turns out it runs
git diff with all these flags (less --find-copies-harder, which is
enabled by the config option). I _have_ confirmed this bug exists in
unpatched Git, however.
Some rough debugging notes: when entering diffcore_std (or
diffcore_rename_extended's cleanup loop):
- for exit-code, diff_queued_diff.nr matches "git ls-files :/ | wc -l"
- for quiet, it's just 1 (the first file listed by git ls-files :/, AFAICT)
The only other obvious difference I spotted is that the "quick" flag
is turned on for quiet, which makes sense.
I tried to figure out who builds the queue, and it looks like it's
diff_cache -> unpack_trees -> ..., where at some point for exit-code
we _keep_ queuing files, but for quiet we don't.
I also saw diff_cache tweaks opts.diff_index_cached based on
--find-copies-harder, but I haven't looked further to see how that
affects things or what the interaction with ext-diff is.
Help welcome, thanks.
--
D. Ben Knoble
next reply other threads:[~2025-11-08 19:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-11-08 19:05 D. Ben Knoble [this message]
2025-11-08 19:08 ` diff --cached --no-ext-diff --find-copies-harder --quiet exits with wrong status code D. Ben Knoble
2025-11-08 19:12 ` D. Ben Knoble
2025-11-09 12:11 ` [PATCH] diff: disabled quick optimization with --find-copies-harder René Scharfe
2025-11-09 14:18 ` Phillip Wood
2025-11-09 16:43 ` René Scharfe
2025-11-09 16:43 ` [PATCH v2] diff: disable rename detection with --quiet René Scharfe
2025-11-09 17:34 ` D. Ben Knoble
2025-11-09 18:35 ` René Scharfe
2025-11-10 23:58 ` D. Ben Knoble
2025-11-10 9:42 ` Phillip Wood
2025-11-10 17:54 ` Jeff King
2025-11-10 19:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-11-22 21:44 ` René Scharfe
2025-11-23 7:09 ` Junio C Hamano
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