From: Matt Graham Date: Thu, 01 May 2008 00:32:03 GMT Subject: Re: Files need updating following a clone? Message-ID: <1c5969370804301732i282064f7r55858d54a6796791@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <65e5553a-a630-4b1a-9c81-f0ed7d9d7361@c19g2000prf.googlegroups.com> On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 7:12 PM, edpark wrote: > This is really strange and I'm wondering if anyone here can help me > out. > > I just cloned a remote repository and when I execute a 'git status' > right after it says that some files need to be updated: > > utsd.txt: needs update > > If I just cloned a remote repo how did these files get modified? How > can I make git realize that these files aren't modified? > Further, if I clone to a different machine then the git on that > machine doesn't indicate that any files were modified (??). What systems are you using? Someone recently posted a probably unrelated issue when mixing macs and windows. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/80548/match=mac+modified