I hit an issue in Git today that seemed to be a bug. Basically what
happened is in our master branch we had two files, one named something
like "file_NAME.png" and another named "file_name.png" in the same
folder. In the develop branch in the same repo we had removed the
"file_NAME.png" file so that only the "file_name.png" file was left.
If I clone the repo so I get master and then do "git checkout develop"
I would see when running "git status" that I would have this message:
On branch develop
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/develop'.
Changes not staged for commit:
(use "git add/rm <file>..." to update what will be committed)
(use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)
deleted: file_name.png
no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")
So when I move from master to develop that status would come up. If I
ran "git reset --hard" I would no longer have that message. I also
saw that when I do a git clone and specify to clone the develop branch
that I would not see the git status above. Is this an issue where if
one branch has two files of the same name where one gets removed that
it will remove both instances of that file in another branch when you
switch to it? I fixed this issue in our repo by removing the
"file_NAME.png" file in the master branch, but it seems like this
should be handled better in the case I described.