Shawn Pearce wrote: > > You are just *very unlucky*. :-) > > The Linux kernel has case sensitive file names. In other words there > are two files in the kernel: > > net/netfilter/xt_MARK.c > net/netfilter/xt_mark.c > > and they have different content! On NTFS or FAT, where filenames > are not case sensitive, these become the same file. So Git now > starts to think that the file was modified, because one of those > files overwrote the other when they were checked out. > > Moral of the story: You cannot work with the linux.git repository > on a case insensitive filesystem, like NTFS, FAT (Windows), or HFS+ > (Mac OS X). > Yes, you are very right. $ git ls-files |tr A-Z a-z | sort | uniq -c |grep -v "1 " 2 include/linux/netfilter/xt_connmark.h 2 include/linux/netfilter/xt_dscp.h 2 include/linux/netfilter/xt_mark.h 2 include/linux/netfilter_ipv4/ipt_connmark.h 2 include/linux/netfilter_ipv4/ipt_dscp.h 2 include/linux/netfilter_ipv4/ipt_ecn.h 2 include/linux/netfilter_ipv4/ipt_mark.h 2 include/linux/netfilter_ipv4/ipt_tcpmss.h 2 include/linux/netfilter_ipv4/ipt_tos.h 2 include/linux/netfilter_ipv4/ipt_ttl.h 2 include/linux/netfilter_ipv6/ip6t_hl.h 2 include/linux/netfilter_ipv6/ip6t_mark.h 2 net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_ecn.c 2 net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_tos.c 2 net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_ttl.c 2 net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6t_hl.c 2 net/netfilter/xt_connmark.c 2 net/netfilter/xt_dscp.c 2 net/netfilter/xt_mark.c poor Windows... :-( - 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