Re: Cloned repository has file changes -> bug?

From: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Date: Jan 28, 2018, 07:57 UTC
Message-ID: <20180128075731.GA17412@tor.lan>
In-Reply-To: <87607nvzrd.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>

On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 08:59:50PM +0100, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

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> 
> On Sat, Jan 27 2018, Filip Jorissen jotted:
> 
> > I think our git repository is bugged. The reason why I say this is the
> > following. When cloning the repository, the newly cloned repository
> > immediately has file changes[...].
> 
> If you run this:
> 
>     git ls-files | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | sort | uniq -D | grep '^'
> 
> You'll see that the reason is that you have files that differ only in
> case.
> 
> You are using a Mac, and Macs by default think that files that are
> different binary strings are the same file, since they don't consider
> case to be relevant. The file FOO, foo and FoO and fOo are all the same
> file as far as your Mac is concerned, but would be 4 different files on
> Linux.
> 
> > How can I fix the repository?
> 
> You could check it out on a OS that considers files that differ in case
> to be different files, e.g. on Linux, move them around, push it, and new
> clones should work on your Mac.
> 
> Alternatively I hear that you can create a loopback case-sensitive FS
> image on Macs.

You can even fix the repo locally. There are 2 files with uppercase/lowercase collisions. I show you how to fix one off these, the other one goes similar. After that, do a commit and a push and pull request.

Changes not staged for commit:
  (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
  (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)

        modified:   IDEAS/Resources/ReferenceResults/Dymola/IDEAS_Fluid_HeatExchangers_GroundHeatExchangers_Borefield_Examples_MultipleBoreholesWithHeatPump.txt
        modified:   IDEAS/Resources/ReferenceResults/Dymola/IDEAS_Utilities_Psychrometrics_Functions_Examples_saturationPressure.txt

no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a") user@mac:/tmp/IDEAS> git ls-files -s | grep -i IDEAS/Resources/ReferenceResults/Dymola/IDEAS_Fluid_HeatExchangers_GroundHeatExchangers_Borefield_Examples_MultipleBoreholesWithHeatPump.txt 100644 f56cfcf14aa4b53dfc5ecfb488366f721c94c8e2 0 IDEAS/Resources/ReferenceResults/Dymola/IDEAS_Fluid_HeatExchangers_GroundHeatExchangers_Borefield_Examples_MultipleBoreholesWithHeatPump.txt 100644 e345e1372111d034b4c5a1c75eb791340b93f55e 0 IDEAS/Resources/ReferenceResults/Dymola/ideas_Fluid_HeatExchangers_GroundHeatExchangers_Borefield_Examples_MultipleBoreholesWithHeatPump.txt user@mac:/tmp/IDEAS> git mv IDEAS/Resources/ReferenceResults/Dymola/ideas_Fluid_HeatExchangers_GroundHeatExchangers_Borefield_Examples_MultipleBoreholesWithHeatPump.txt IDEAS/Resources/ReferenceResults/Dymola/ideas_Fluid_HeatExchangers_GroundHeatExchangers_Borefield_Examples_MultipleBoreholesWithHeatPump2.txt user@mac:/tmp/IDEAS> git checkout IDEAS/Resources/ReferenceResults/Dymola/ideas_Fluid_HeatExchangers_GroundHeatExchangers_Borefield_Examples_MultipleBoreholesWithHeatPump2.txt user@mac:/tmp/IDEAS> git checkout IDEAS/Resources/ReferenceResults/Dymola/IDEAS_Fluid_HeatExchangers_GroundHeatExchangers_Borefield_Examples_MultipleBoreholesWithHeatPump.txt user@mac:/tmp/IDEAS> git status On branch master Your branch is up to date with 'origin/master'.

Changes to be committed:
  (use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage)

        renamed:    IDEAS/Resources/ReferenceResults/Dymola/ideas_Fluid_HeatExchangers_GroundHeatExchangers_Borefield_Examples_MultipleBoreholesWithHeatPump.txt -> IDEAS/Resources/ReferenceResults/Dymola/ideas_Fluid_HeatExchangers_GroundHeatExchangers_Borefield_Examples_MultipleBoreholesWithHeatPump2.txt

Changes not staged for commit:
  (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
  (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)

        modified:   IDEAS/Resources/ReferenceResults/Dymola/IDEAS_Utilities_Psychrometrics_Functions_Examples_saturationPressure.txt

user@mac:/tmp/IDEAS>