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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Git commit behaving strangely
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 11:28:55 -0500
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Zeeshan Qureshi wrote:
>>>> Zeeshan Qureshi wrote:

>>>>> 3. then i added 1 new line to both closing.txt and file.txt
>>>>> 4. i added the file closing.txt to the staging are by running 'git
>>>>> add closing.txt'
>>>>> 5. now i ran 'git checkout' (by mistake)
[...]
>>>>> 7. Now when i run 'git commit -m "closing again"', the change is not
>>>>> committed even though i get a new commit id.
>>>>> 
>>>>> The output of 'git log -p' is this (as you can clearly see, there
>>>>> are new commits but no change has been recorded)
[...]
> I did the test again on the Solaris machine, and encountered the same problem.
> 
> I am on a Sun Blade 1500 machine running Solaris 10.

Since this seems to be hard to replicate without blastwave, I would suggest
reporting it through the blastwave forum.

Thanks, and good luck.