Re: "Changes not staged for commit" after cloning a repo on macOS

From: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Date: Aug 16, 2018, 06:23 UTC
Message-ID: <20180816062317.GA5080@tor.lan>
In-Reply-To: <6022fbe8-0e07-f561-5e66-eeb4bc92704d@hadisafari.ir>

On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 12:25:24AM +0430, Hadi Safari wrote:

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> Hi everyone!
> 
> I encountered a strange situation on OS X recently. I cloned a repository
> (https://github.com/kevinxucs/Sublime-Gitignore.git), went to folder, and
> saw "Changes not staged for commit" message for four specific files. It
> happened every time I repeated the procedure. I even was able to commit
> those to the repo.
> At first I thought there's something wrong with repo, but I cloned it on
> Ubuntu 16.04 and everything was OK; no "Changes not staged for commit"
> message.
> 
> Does anyone have any idea?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Log:
> 
> ```
> $ git clone https://github.com/kevinxucs/Sublime-Gitignore.git
> Cloning into 'Sublime-Gitignore'...
> remote: Counting objects: 515, done.
> remote: Total 515 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 515
> Receiving objects: 100% (515/515), 102.14 KiB | 48.00 KiB/s, done.
> Resolving deltas: 100% (143/143), done.
> $ cd Sublime-Gitignore/
> $ git status
> On branch master
> Your branch is up to date with 'origin/master'.
> 
> 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:   boilerplates/Nanoc.gitignore
>     modified:   boilerplates/OpenCart.gitignore
>     modified:   boilerplates/SASS.gitignore
>     modified:   boilerplates/WordPress.gitignore
> 
> no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")
> ```
> 
> The rest of the log is available at
> https://github.com/kevinxucs/Sublime-Gitignore/issues/6. (I don't want this
> email to become too long.)
> 
> -- 
> Hadi Safari
> http://hadisafari.ir/

This repo seams not ment to be cloned onto a file system, which is case-insensitive. For example, (see below), this 2 files a different in the repo, but the file system can not have 'WordPress' and 'Wordpres's as different files or directories at the same time. This affects typically Mac OS and Windows users.

There is actually some work going on right now to inform the user about this problem. (Thanks Duy !) If I clone it with a patched Git, I get the following:

git clone https://github.com/kevinxucs/Sublime-Gitignore.git Cloning into 'Sublime-Gitignore'... remote: Counting objects: 515, done. remote: Total 515 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 515 Receiving objects: 100% (515/515), 102.16 KiB | 35.00 KiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (143/143), done. warning: the following paths have collided (e.g. case-sensitive paths on a case-insensitive filesystem) and only one from the same colliding group is in the working tree:

  'boilerplates/Gcov.gitignore'
  'boilerplates/Nanoc.gitignore'
  'boilerplates/OpenCart.gitignore'
  'boilerplates/SASS.gitignore'
  'boilerplates/Sass.gitignore'
  'boilerplates/Stella.gitignore'
  'boilerplates/WordPress.gitignore'
  'boilerplates/Wordpress.gitignore'
  'boilerplates/gcov.gitignore'
  'boilerplates/nanoc.gitignore'
  'boilerplates/opencart.gitignore'
  'boilerplates/stella.gitignore'

Would this text help you ?

I am asking because the development is still ongoing, so things can be improved.