It's getting more weird. I believe that (msys)Git doesn't really know how the filesystem on its operating system works. I have made some more changes now and want to commit them. TortoiseGit reports the files Form1.Designer.cs and Form1.designer.cs (note the case difference) as modified and ready to commit. How is that supposed to work? On Windows, file names are case-insensitive (as on MacOS X) and both names refer to the absolute same file. 'git status' has the very same listing with that same file twice. What else is now broken in my repository? If the index is such a problem child, how can I safely delete it completely and maybe have it regenerated if Git can't live without it? -- Yves Goergen "LonelyPixel" <nospam.list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Visit my web laboratory at http://beta.unclassified.de -- 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