From: Ben Hoskings <ben@hoskings.net>
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 04:08:05 GMT
Subject: Unexpected local changes immediately after fresh clone
Message-ID: <3D94CDCE-88EB-479A-9D36-6B92FCFCBAF4@hoskings.net>

Hi all,

As part of learning a bit more about git workflows, I thought I'd  
poke around a large and high-traffic repo, so I cloned Linus'  
linux-2.6 repository today from

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git

After the clone was done, I changed into the repo's directory and ran  
a 'git status' (just out of habit), and it showed a bunch of  
uncommitted, unstaged changes.

Here's a log of the terminal during this (I removed no-ops like 'ls',  
and I inserted line breaks before each prompt for readability):

http://gist.github.com/63027

Doing a 'git diff' on the net/ subdirectory showed that the changes  
were sensible - i.e. it wasn't random corruption or anything. The ones  
I looked through were cleanups to part of the TCP code (you can see  
them in the gist linked above).

Is this normal or expected? My understanding was that a clone first  
received the current HEAD and its history, and then checked out the  
current state of it as the working copy. In any case, I would have  
expected the repositories at git.kernel.org to be bare and as such  
have no working copy for uncommitted changes to be in.

My system is a Mac OS X 10.5.6 box (aluminium MacBook); some details  
are below.

This may well be normal behaviour, but I asked about it in  
freenode:#git and no one had heard of it happening before.

Cheers
Ben Hoskings

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$ uname -a
Darwin hat 9.6.0 Darwin Kernel Version 9.6.0: Mon Nov 24 17:37:00 PST  
2008; root:xnu-1228.9.59~1/RELEASE_I386 i386

$ which git
/usr/local/bin/git

$ git --version
git version 1.6.1.2

$ df /
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/disk0s2 233Gi 213Gi 19Gi 92% /