From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthieu Moy Subject: Re: "Your local changes ... would be overwritten" bug Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2011 18:52:31 +0200 Message-ID: References: <8362l73qi6.fsf@kalahari.s2.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Hannu Koivisto X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Sep 05 18:52:52 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R0cPj-0007fS-JF for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Sep 2011 18:52:51 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751588Ab1IEQwq (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Sep 2011 12:52:46 -0400 Received: from mx2.imag.fr ([129.88.30.17]:54626 "EHLO rominette.imag.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751308Ab1IEQwp (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Sep 2011 12:52:45 -0400 Received: from mail-veri.imag.fr (mail-veri.imag.fr [129.88.43.52]) by rominette.imag.fr (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p85GpYWY031007 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 5 Sep 2011 18:51:34 +0200 Received: from bauges.imag.fr ([129.88.7.32]) by mail-veri.imag.fr with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R0cPQ-0005kn-5Z; Mon, 05 Sep 2011 18:52:32 +0200 In-Reply-To: <8362l73qi6.fsf@kalahari.s2.org> (Hannu Koivisto's message of "Mon, 05 Sep 2011 19:25:53 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.2 (rominette.imag.fr [129.88.30.17]); Mon, 05 Sep 2011 18:51:34 +0200 (CEST) X-IMAG-MailScanner-Information: Please contact MI2S MIM for more information X-MailScanner-ID: p85GpYWY031007 X-IMAG-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-IMAG-MailScanner-SpamCheck: X-IMAG-MailScanner-From: matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr MailScanner-NULL-Check: 1315846298.35445@PlDFTfOskP6MRM5bKq1X1A Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hannu Koivisto writes: > The following script can be used to reproduce the problem: [...] I cannot reproduce on Linux. > I'm running Cygwin git 1.7.5.1 in Windows XP. Probably a dumb question (from a non-windows-user), but why not use the native Git for windows? What happens if you run "git status" before running the problematic "git checkout"? (I'm asking because "git status" refreshes the stat-cache, so it may change the result) -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/