From: srinivas naga vutukuri <srinivas.vutukuri@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:52:51 GMT
Subject: Re: Local uncommitted changes, not checked in to index with gitk
Message-ID: <ace3f33d0808130852g766d71c5i6035309ff7296e0d@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <48A2ED80.5000808@viscovery.net>

Yes, you are right, am using cygwin, without having the point in mind,
i simply thought some thing is going wrong on the git side, I just
compared with the gitweb copy on the kernel.org.

I just seen in the cygwin faqs, could possibility of case sensitive
managed mount in cygwin,
have to see if can achieve that.

And thanks for giving clarity.

-srinivas.

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 7:49 PM, Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> wrote:
> srinivas naga vutukuri schrieb:
>> I just done "git status", Its giving the following output. But i
>> have't done around these files anything at all, not opened, etc.
>>
>> -------------
>> # On branch master
>> # Changed but not updated:
>> #   (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
>> #
>> #       modified:   include/linux/netfilter/xt_connmark.h
> ...
>
> You are on a case-insensitive file system. The linux kernel source
> requires a case-sensitive file system because the sources contain both of
> these files:
>
> include/linux/netfilter/xt_connmark.h
> include/linux/netfilter/xt_CONNMARK.h
>
> (ditto for the other cases that you observed).
>
> -- Hannes
>
>