Re: Cannot reset a repo

From: Martin Wendt <martin@wwwendt.de>
Date: Dec 7, 2014, 15:34 UTC
Message-ID: <05564C98-ADF9-491F-A22B-A2523EDFB381@wwWendt.de>
In-Reply-To: <54842694.9030908@web.de>

arghh, sorry that's embarrassing. I was sure that the Mac filesystem was case sensitive by default, because it's unix based... Thanks for your support.

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> Am 07.12.2014 um 11:06 schrieb Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>:
> 
> On 06.12.14 14:39, Martin Wendt wrote:
>>> Am 06.12.2014 um 13:14 schrieb Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>:
>>> 
>>> On 2014-12-06 11.27, Martin Wendt wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> I am facing this problem:
>>>> 
>>>> - Using git version 1.9.3 (Apple Git-50)
>>>> - cloned a fork from GitHub to my local machine:
>>>> https://github.com/mar10/cdnjs/
>>>> - This repo seems to be broken in some way.
>>>>   At least it is not clean from the beginning and I am not able to reset
>>>>   `git reset --hard` only toggles the modified file from
>>>> ".../sortable" to ".../Sortable" and back
>>>>   (see attached screenshot)
>>>> 
>>>> Is this a known problem (with case sensitivity)? 
>>> I think so
>>>> Any suggestions how to  fix it?
>>> Try to rename Sortable into Sortable.u:
>>> git mv Sortable Sortable.upper
>>> (When that does not work)
>>> git mv sortable sortable.lower
>>> 
>>> If this is not an option, use a USB Stick, format it with HFS+ "case sensitive"
>>> and clone the repo to the stick
>>> 
>> 
>> Thanks for responding.
>> It is a fork of the 6GB cdnjs repository and I don't own the sortable lib. So renaming is not an option.
> Can you fix it a send a pull request to the author on github ?
>> Also, I am working on a MacBook, which already has a case sensitive file system