Re: git checkout branch puzzle

> On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 05:55:47PM +0000, Chris.Cheney wrote:
> 
>> I have been using msysgit (curently 1.7.0.2.msysgit.0) for about 18
>> months and thought that I had managed to understand most things.
>> However, the following sequence has me baffled:
>> 
>> a) on branch 'master', git status shows that the working directory is
>> clean 
>> 
>> b) git checkout HEAD^ gives the usual moan about moving to a head
>> which isn't a local branch
>> 
>> c) git checkout master followed by git status gives "changed but not 
>> updated" and a list of "modified" files
> 
> Part (c) shouldn't show anything in "git status". I wonder if it is a
> line-ending conversion issue, since you are using msysgit, and since
> that is the usual culprit for files mysteriously looking changed.
> Might you have recently changed the settings of core.autocrlf?
> 
> -Peff
>