# Fwd: git status bug problem.

5 messages from 2008-06-23 to 2008-06-24. Participants: Ben Bennett, Jakub Narebski, Mikael Magnusson.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/14099

## Ben Bennett, 2008-06-23 13:22

Subject: Fwd: git status bug problem.
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I can't seem to get git status to return that a file has changed. I
think my environment is hosed up, but I don't know for sure. My
machine is ubuntu 8.04  with kernel  2.6.24-17-generic #1 SMPx86_64
GNU/Linux . I set up a test repo and it added one file to it ,
modified the file and saved . Doing git status returns nothing, git
gui finds no modified files. Doing git add * finds the modified file
and stages it. I can get someone a strace for the git status it is
only about a 1 page.

Thanks,
Ben

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## Jakub Narebski, 2008-06-23 13:47

Subject: Re: Fwd: git status bug problem.
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"Ben Bennett" <benbennett@gmail.com> writes:

> I can't seem to get git status to return that a file has changed. I
> think my environment is hosed up, but I don't know for sure. My
> machine is ubuntu 8.04  with kernel  2.6.24-17-generic #1 SMPx86_64
> GNU/Linux . I set up a test repo and it added one file to it ,
> modified the file and saved . Doing git status returns nothing, git
> gui finds no modified files. Doing git add * finds the modified file
> and stages it. I can get someone a strace for the git status it is
> only about a 1 page.

You should have got something like the following:

# On branch master
# Changes to be committed:
#   (use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage)
#
#       new file:   bar
#
# Changed but not updated:
#   (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
#
#       modified:   bar
#

BTW. you have made initial commit, did you?

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
ShadeHawk on #git

```

## Ben Bennett, 2008-06-24 01:37

Subject: Re: git status bug problem.
Message-ID: <970bc7c80806231837j19458b80x81063745a2ef40c4@mail.gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/970bc7c80806231837j19458b80x81063745a2ef40c4%40mail.gmail.com
In-Reply-To: <m3r6aol0u8.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

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I made the initial commit.  git-gui doesn't return anything either.
Something tells me it isn't getting the cwd. Add git status *  it will
work correctly , but git-gui doesn't give anything.

somewhere@something:~/git_test$ git status
# On branch master
nothing to commit (working directory clean)

somewhere@something:~/git_test$ git status *
# On branch master
# Changes to be committed:
#   (use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage)
#
#	modified:   test/test2.txt
#
Thanks,
Ben
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 8:47 AM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
> "Ben Bennett" <benbennett@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I can't seem to get git status to return that a file has changed. I
>> think my environment is hosed up, but I don't know for sure. My
>> machine is ubuntu 8.04  with kernel  2.6.24-17-generic #1 SMPx86_64
>> GNU/Linux . I set up a test repo and it added one file to it ,
>> modified the file and saved . Doing git status returns nothing, git
>> gui finds no modified files. Doing git add * finds the modified file
>> and stages it. I can get someone a strace for the git status it is
>> only about a 1 page.
>
> You should have got something like the following:
>
> # On branch master
> # Changes to be committed:
> #   (use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage)
> #
> #       new file:   bar
> #
> # Changed but not updated:
> #   (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
> #
> #       modified:   bar
> #
>
> BTW. you have made initial commit, did you?
>
> --
> Jakub Narebski
> Poland
> ShadeHawk on #git
>

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## Mikael Magnusson, 2008-06-24 01:49

Subject: Re: git status bug problem.
Message-ID: <237967ef0806231849k2aa0c1ebt9f4dee45e2b40896@mail.gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/237967ef0806231849k2aa0c1ebt9f4dee45e2b40896%40mail.gmail.com
In-Reply-To: <970bc7c80806231837j19458b80x81063745a2ef40c4@mail.gmail.com>

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2008/6/24 Ben Bennett <benbennett@gmail.com>:
> I made the initial commit.  git-gui doesn't return anything either.
> Something tells me it isn't getting the cwd. Add git status *  it will
> work correctly , but git-gui doesn't give anything.
>
> somewhere@something:~/git_test$ git status
> # On branch master
> nothing to commit (working directory clean)
>
> somewhere@something:~/git_test$ git status *
> # On branch master
> # Changes to be committed:
> #   (use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage)
> #
> #       modified:   test/test2.txt
> #
> Thanks,
> Ben

The file isn't by chance matched by a git ignore rule somewhere? An easy
way to check is to try and git add the file, it will say you have to use
-f if it does.

-- 
Mikael Magnusson

```

## Ben Bennett, 2008-06-24 02:09

Subject: Re: git status bug problem.
Message-ID: <970bc7c80806231909q1286ddb2h1c97ef3825c7fd5f@mail.gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/970bc7c80806231909q1286ddb2h1c97ef3825c7fd5f%40mail.gmail.com
In-Reply-To: <237967ef0806231849k2aa0c1ebt9f4dee45e2b40896@mail.gmail.com>

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Nope, it was an blank test repo .
Did git init
git add *
(which added a few text files)
did git commit -m "just a test"
Modified the file , did git status and I get nothing . git-gui
displays nothing . I think I hosed up something , either some dynamic
lib or something.
doing git status * gives me the files.


On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 8:49 PM, Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/6/24 Ben Bennett <benbennett@gmail.com>:
>> I made the initial commit.  git-gui doesn't return anything either.
>> Something tells me it isn't getting the cwd. Add git status *  it will
>> work correctly , but git-gui doesn't give anything.
>>
>> somewhere@something:~/git_test$ git status
>> # On branch master
>> nothing to commit (working directory clean)
>>
>> somewhere@something:~/git_test$ git status *
>> # On branch master
>> # Changes to be committed:
>> #   (use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage)
>> #
>> #       modified:   test/test2.txt
>> #
>> Thanks,
>> Ben
>
> The file isn't by chance matched by a git ignore rule somewhere? An easy
> way to check is to try and git add the file, it will say you have to use
> -f if it does.
>
> --
> Mikael Magnusson
>

```