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Reminds me of an infuriating old bug in VirtualBox where it wouldn't notice the size of a file had changed. Devs were working in some Windows editor then using
by dmw_ng 6y ago
Reminds me of an infuriating old bug in VirtualBox where it wouldn't notice the size of a file had changed. Devs were working in some Windows editor then using Git within VirtualBox to commit changes, resulting in inexplicable trailing nulls and garbage turning up in the repo
Took quite some time to figure out what was causing it. "Everyone is somehow corrupting files except for me, wtf?" Magic filesystem translation layers always suck
- ficklepickle 6y agoI'm now in the habit of doing a git diff before every commit. Even if I don't thoroughly read the diff, I at least skim it for sanity. I can't recall what made me start doing that, but now it's a habit.
- withinboredom 6y agoI do git add -up Same thing, sorta but all in one go.