From: Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de>
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2011 21:51:03 GMT
Subject: Re: Odd issue - The Diffs That WILL NOT DIE.
Message-ID: <20111206215102.GA3654@centaur.lab.cmartin.tk>
In-Reply-To: <CAJ8P3RBm=RhNf6LKLqprqX6Rqx0OgRnJR+=+-Qhg4PvpeqaUDg@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 04:43:50PM -0500, Chris Patti wrote:
> I have a Homebrew installed version if Git 1.7.8 running on OSX Lion.
> 
> I'm seeing a very odd issue where these diffs I didn't create keep
> recurring in a particular repository.

Which diffs? You haven't given us any? What files does this happen
with? Do they have any peculiarities?

If these are files with non-ASCII filenames, then you're hitting a
misfeature of the HFS+ filesystem (it lies when git asks it about
files).

> 
> I've tried:
> 
> * Nuking the repo and re-cloning, cloning into a totally different
> containing directory
> * git reset --hard, git checkout -- of the offending file supposedly
> containing the diffs
> 
> Is there some sort of uber persistent local cache that's bound to the
> remote repository?

The remote repository shouldn't have anything to do with this.

   cmn