From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hannu Koivisto Subject: Re: after first git clone of linux kernel repository there are changed files in working dir Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:36:04 +0200 Message-ID: <83ocy3fmez.fsf@kalahari.s2.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: rdkrsr X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jan 19 14:37:30 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LOuJl-0001rX-Pi for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:37:30 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752248AbZASNgI (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Jan 2009 08:36:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751413AbZASNgH (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Jan 2009 08:36:07 -0500 Received: from s2.org ([195.197.64.39]:38476 "EHLO kalahari.s2.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751169AbZASNgG (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Jan 2009 08:36:06 -0500 Received: from azure by kalahari.s2.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LOuIO-0003cA-Et; Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:36:04 +0200 In-Reply-To: (rdkrsr@googlemail.com's message of "Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:22:46 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: azure@iki.fi X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on kalahari.s2.org); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: rdkrsr writes: > I just fetched the sources without changing anything, but git diff > shows, that there are changes that are not yet updated (changed but not > updated: use git add to ...). Why is it like that? > > I use msysgit on windows, maybe that is one reason? Kernel source contains pairs of files whose names differ only by case. Windows cannot store such pairs (at least by default) and apparently there is no support for such a situation in git so you'll only get one file from each pair to your workspace and the other file is shown as modified. -- Hannu