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diff --git a/Documentation/git-update-index.txt b/Documentation/git-update-index.txt index bdb0342593..f0e08d6a4c 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-update-index.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-update-index.txt @@ -464,6 +464,22 @@ command reads the index; while when `--[no-|force-]untracked-cache` are used, the untracked cache is immediately added to or removed from the index. +Before 2.17, the untracked cache had a bug where replacing a directory +with a symlink to another directory could cause it to incorrectly show +files tracked by git as untracked. See the "status: add a failing test +showing a core.untrackedCache bug" commit to git.git. A workaround for +that is (and this might work for other undiscovered bugs in the +future): + +---------------- +$ git -c core.untrackedCache=false status +---------------- + +This bug has also been shown to affect non-symlink cases of replacing +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. + File System Monitor ------------------- |