ruby-git status and command line git status differ about ruby-git HOT 9 CLOSED

ruby-git status behind the scenes calls git diff-files instead of actual git status. git diff-files shows all changes made to files (including mode and modification date changes), but only until git diff is called once. So strange...

Finally, I ended up with:

      @g.status.changed.each do
        @g.diff.entries
      end

This is similar to the solution proposed by @josh803316 , yet just calling diff.entries once for each element of g.status.changed enumeration is sufficient to sanitize the contents of @g.status.changed and once it's done, g.status.changed can enumerated again, this time with correct result.
I'm sorry, but I have no idea, why it is so.
ruby-git version is 1.2.8
ruby binary version is 2.1.2p95

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I was able to circumvent the problem by doing this, in case anyone else has run into the same issue

       @git.status.changed.each do |file|
            if file[0] =~ /#{intersection}/
                result      = @git.diff('HEAD',"#{dir}/")
                has_changes = true unless result.entries.length < 1
            end
        end

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I'm having this issue as well.

EDIT

Curiously, shelling out to git status from ruby before, e.g. @git.status seems to result in the latter reporting status accurately.

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I found out that after touching a file (updating its modification date) Git needs to be reopened again. Here is the experiment I made in irb:

2.1.2 :001 > require 'git'
 => true
2.1.2 :002 > g=Git.open('.')
 => #<Git::Base:0x007fe5931d4608 ...>
2.1.2 :003 > g.status.changed.size
 => 0
2.1.2 :004 > g.diff('HEAD').size
 => 0
2.1.2 :005 > system "touch example.txt"
 => true
2.1.2 :006 > g.status.changed.size
 => 1
2.1.2 :007 > g.diff('HEAD').size
 => 0
2.1.2 :008 > g=Git.open('.')
 => #<Git::Base:0x007fe5938101c0 ...>
2.1.2 :009 > g.status.changed.size
 => 0
2.1.2 :010 > g.diff('HEAD').size
 => 0

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This is affecting me as well. Why can't ruby-git status call git status instead of git diff-files? This implementation is confusing because it differs from git's implementation.

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I'm running into the same behavior as listed above, so I would say this issue should be reopened.

I'm having this issue as well.

EDIT

Curiously, shelling out to git status from ruby before, e.g. @git.status seems to result in the latter reporting status accurately.

I'm using ruby-git 1.5.0 and git version 2.15.2 (Apple Git-101.1).

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Running git diff-files on one of my repos, all of the files look like this:

$ git diff-files | head -n2
:100644 100644 51e14f30f818cde956880833f3c9a5822b54ad03 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 M	.gitignore
:100644 100644 93deb154ae39ea2ae76c9a70ddf51be9dcbd8f4a 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 M	README.md

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@jon-rtr

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