On February 18, 2019 10:17, SZEDER Gábor wrote: > To: Joe Ranieri <jrani...@grammatech.com> > Cc: git@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re: [BUG] ls-files showing deleted files (unchecked lstat return > value) > > On Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 08:49:39AM -0500, Joe Ranieri wrote: > > "git ls-files -m" can show deleted files, despite -d not having been > > specified. > > To my understanding that's intentional: a deleted file is considered modified, > because its content clearly doesn't match the tracked content.
That's a good point and why I asked for a specific test condition that illustrated the bug as being unanticipated. I'm not sure what Joe supplied elsewhere in the thread does that. > > This is due to ls-files.c's show_files function calling lstat but not > > checking the return value before calling ie_modified with the > > uninitialized stat structure.
