Re: git checkout branch puzzle

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: May 2, 2010, 04:59 UTC
Message-ID: <20100502045901.GD14776@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <Xns9D6BC0C4C8784ChrisCheneytesconet@80.91.229.10>

On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 05:55:47PM +0000, Chris.Cheney wrote:

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> I have been using msysgit (curently 1.7.0.2.msysgit.0) for about 18 months 
> and thought that I had managed to understand most things. However, the 
> following sequence has me baffled:
> 
> a) on branch 'master', git status shows that the working directory is clean
> 
> b) git checkout HEAD^ gives the usual moan about moving to a head which 
> isn't a local branch
> 
> c) git checkout master followed by git status gives "changed but not 
> updated" and a list of "modified" files

Part (c) shouldn't show anything in "git status". I wonder if it is a line-ending conversion issue, since you are using msysgit, and since that is the usual culprit for files mysteriously looking changed. Might you have recently changed the settings of core.autocrlf?

-Peff