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Re: Fwd: after first git clone of linux kernel repository there are changed files in working dir

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Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <bss03@volumehost.net>
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Dec 11, 2008, 20:23 UTC
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On Thursday 2008 December 11 11:58:01 rdkrsr wrote:
>I'm not developing linux kernel, I just wanted to experiment with git.
>And then I didn't know if this is a normal behaviour of git. I'm using
>windows xp and msysgit for this. And the file system is NTFS.

You might want to choose a more MS Windows-friendly codebase to test with. For codebases without filenames that differ only in case, git should work fine on MS Windows. For codebases with filenames that differ only in case, I don't know a VCS that will handle them well on MS Windows.

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Message 14 of 16 in “after first git clone of linux kernel repository there are changed files in working dir”
  1. rdkrsrDec 10, 2008
  2. Brett SimmersDec 10, 2008
  3. Hannu KoivistoJan 19, 2009
  4. An idea: maybe Git should use a lock/unlock file mode for problematic files? [Was: Re: after first git clone of linux kernel repository there are changed files in working dir]thestar@fussycoder.id.au, Jan 19, 2009
  5. Daniel BarkalowJan 20, 2009
  6. John ChapmanJan 20, 2009
  7. Daniel BarkalowJan 20, 2009
  8. Alex RiesenJan 20, 2009
  9. Daniel BarkalowJan 21, 2009
  10. Alex RiesenJan 21, 2009
  11. Fwd: after first git clone of linux kernel repository there are changed files in working dirrdkrsr, Dec 11, 2008
  12. Linus TorvaldsDec 11, 2008
  13. rdkrsrDec 11, 2008
  14. Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.Dec 11, 2008
  15. Giuseppe BilottaDec 11, 2008
  16. Nick AndrewDec 12, 2008

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