Don't know if this is a git bug or something I'm doing wrong. Suggestions appreciated. On a machine named server: server[saturday]$ uname -a OpenBSD server.snafu.org 5.1 SERVER#342 amd64 server[saturday]$ git --version git version 1.7.6 server[saturday]$ git status # On branch master nothing to commit (working directory clean) Yeah, I haven't updated that machine in a while. Ignore that as everything is fine on that machine. The issue is on another machine: $ uname -a Darwin dumbcat.snafu.org 12.0.0 Darwin Kernel Version 12.0.0: Sun Jun 24 23:00:16 PDT 2012; root:xnu-2050.7.9~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64 $ git --version git version 1.7.11.3 $ git clone server:~www/www/saturday Cloning into 'saturday'... remote: Counting objects: 11401, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (6868/6868), done. remote: Total 11401 (delta 5620), reused 9456 (delta 4523) Receiving objects: 100% (11401/11401), 658.01 MiB | 10.79 MiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (5620/5620), done. Checking out files: 100% (4454/4454), done. Everything should be fine, right. Except... $ cd saturday/ $ git status # On branch master # Untracked files: # (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed) # # 2010/ nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track) And there is NOTHING I can do to get that directory into git. $ git add 2010 $ git commit -m 'will it work?' # On branch master # Untracked files: # (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed) # # 2010/ nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track) The directory is not empty. Everything was fine prior to the last commit (into a different directory). I'd originally done the changes and commit on this machine. When things went to hell I repeated the changes on the machine "server" and cloned it as an attempted work-around to the issue. What next?-- 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