Re: git ls-files handles paths differently in Windows and Mac (probably Linux)

From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 12, 2010, 12:51 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTimB6s_yt6L59xpqsWO_yBsZxuVCiExFoSm9FcN1@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <3C33A244-2449-4A3C-A8B5-2060CE61EE04@jetbrains.com>

On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 14:14, Kirill Likhodedov <Kirill.Likhodedov@jetbrains.com> wrote:

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> The behavior of ls-files is inconsistent in Windows and Mac.
>
> I want to see which files were changed in the specific directory of my working tree, so I call ls-files:
>> git ls-files -douvm --exclude-standard -- MYDIR
>

Well, it is an... unconventional way to do that. May I suggest you consider using "git diff --name-status" or just "git status" next time?

> Looks like a bug. Maybe a bug of porting Git to windows, but the behavior is the same on msys-git and cygwin-git.

Maybe. Both ports share a fair amount of Windows-related code.