Re: git and filesystem problems (ext3 and vfat)

[Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>]

Ian Brown venit, vidit, dixit 16.10.2008 18:03:
> Hello, ]
> 
>  I have a diskOnKey which has a vfat filesystem.
> I ran there:
> git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6.git
> the I copied all the wireless-2.6 folder to an ext3 partition.

How did you copy it?

> There I ran git diff.
> 
> I get many messages like these (probably on all files of the repository):
> 
> diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING
> deleted file mode 100644
> index ca442d3..0000000
> --- a/COPYING
> +++ /dev/null
> @@ -1,356 +0,0 @@
> -
> 
> and then all the lines of the file with "-" in the beginning, as if
> they are empty.
> 
> Why is it so ?
> Is there any way to overcome it ?
> Must I run "git clone" on an ext3 DiskOnKey only ?

git diff gives you the difference between the index and the work tree.
The index is the one you copied from vfat; git doesn't see the files on
the ext3 work tree. Do you see them with ls?

One by one I would try

git status
git reset
git reset --hard

in order to reconcile your index with your checkout. You probably need
the last one.

Michael