From: Hannu Koivisto <azure@iki.fi>
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 13:36:04 GMT
Subject: Re: after first git clone of linux kernel repository there are changed files in working dir
Message-ID: <83ocy3fmez.fsf@kalahari.s2.org>
In-Reply-To: <d304880b0812101022u2abe5d68ub3bda68ed39f830b@mail.gmail.com>

rdkrsr <rdkrsr@googlemail.com> writes:

> I just fetched the sources without changing anything, but git diff
> shows, that there are changes that are not yet updated (changed but not
> updated: use git add to ...). Why is it like that?
>
> I use msysgit on windows, maybe that is one reason?

Kernel source contains pairs of files whose names differ only by
case.  Windows cannot store such pairs (at least by default) and
apparently there is no support for such a situation in git so
you'll only get one file from each pair to your workspace and the
other file is shown as modified.

-- 
Hannu