Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote in news:20100502045901.GD14776@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: > 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. Chris -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html