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diff --git a/Documentation/git-update-index.txt b/Documentation/git-update-index.txt index f0e08d6a4c..b8d3c0d72e 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-update-index.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-update-index.txt @@ -480,6 +480,16 @@ a directory with a file when it comes to the internal structures of the untracked cache, but no case has been reported where this resulted in wrong "git status" output. +There are also cases where existing indexes written by git versions +before 2.17 will reference directories that don't exist anymore, +potentially causing many "could not open directory" warnings to be +printed on "git status". These are new warnings for existing issues +that were previously silently discarded. + +As with the bug described above the solution is to one-off do a "git +status" run with `core.untrackedCache=false` to flush out the leftover +bad data. + File System Monitor ------------------- |