Re: git checkout branch puzzle

> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote in
> news:20100502045901.GD14776@coredump.intra.peff.net: 
> 
>> 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
>> 
> 
> Thanks for the reply and confirming what I believed about (c). 
> 
> It is possible that what you suggest might be involved - it's a
> 2-developer situation, each using msysgit with their own local
> repository and a remote master (bare) repository. I'll compare the
> other's config file against mine.