Hi all, Thank you for your quick responses. I was able to resolve the problem based on your feedback! Based on this experience, I would like to suggest that git is somehow able to avoid these problems by doing a case check itself rather than relying on the host OS for this? Kind regards! Filip > Op 28 jan. 2018, om 08:57 heeft Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@xxxxxx> het volgende geschreven: > > On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 08:59:50PM +0100, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: >> >> On Sat, Jan 27 2018, Filip Jorissen jotted: >> >>> I think our git repository is bugged. The reason why I say this is the >>> following. When cloning the repository, the newly cloned repository >>> immediately has file changes[...]. >> >> If you run this: >> >> git ls-files | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | sort | uniq -D | grep '^' >> >> You'll see that the reason is that you have files that differ only in >> case. >> >> You are using a Mac, and Macs by default think that files that are >> different binary strings are the same file, since they don't consider >> case to be relevant. The file FOO, foo and FoO and fOo are all the same >> file as far as your Mac is concerned, but would be 4 different files on >> Linux. >> >>> How can I fix the repository? >> >> You could check it out on a OS that considers files that differ in case >> to be different files, e.g. on Linux, move them around, push it, and new >> clones should work on your Mac. >> >> Alternatively I hear that you can create a loopback case-sensitive FS >> image on Macs. > > You can even fix the repo locally. > There are 2 files with uppercase/lowercase collisions. > I show you how to fix one off these, the other one goes similar. > After that, do a commit and a push and pull request. > > > > Changes not staged for commit: > (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed) > (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory) > > modified: IDEAS/Resources/ReferenceResults/Dymola/IDEAS_Fluid_HeatExchangers_GroundHeatExchangers_Borefield_Examples_MultipleBoreholesWithHeatPump.txt > modified: IDEAS/Resources/ReferenceResults/Dymola/IDEAS_Utilities_Psychrometrics_Functions_Examples_saturationPressure.txt > > no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a") > user@mac:/tmp/IDEAS> git ls-files -s | grep -i IDEAS/Resources/ReferenceResults/Dymola/IDEAS_Fluid_HeatExchangers_GroundHeatExchangers_Borefield_Examples_MultipleBoreholesWithHeatPump.txt > 100644 f56cfcf14aa4b53dfc5ecfb488366f721c94c8e2 0 IDEAS/Resources/ReferenceResults/Dymola/IDEAS_Fluid_HeatExchangers_GroundHeatExchangers_Borefield_Examples_MultipleBoreholesWithHeatPump.txt > 100644 e345e1372111d034b4c5a1c75eb791340b93f55e 0 IDEAS/Resources/ReferenceResults/Dymola/ideas_Fluid_HeatExchangers_GroundHeatExchangers_Borefield_Examples_MultipleBoreholesWithHeatPump.txt > user@mac:/tmp/IDEAS> git mv IDEAS/Resources/ReferenceResults/Dymola/ideas_Fluid_HeatExchangers_GroundHeatExchangers_Borefield_Examples_MultipleBoreholesWithHeatPump.txt IDEAS/Resources/ReferenceResults/Dymola/ideas_Fluid_HeatExchangers_GroundHeatExchangers_Borefield_Examples_MultipleBoreholesWithHeatPump2.txt > user@mac:/tmp/IDEAS> git checkout IDEAS/Resources/ReferenceResults/Dymola/ideas_Fluid_HeatExchangers_GroundHeatExchangers_Borefield_Examples_MultipleBoreholesWithHeatPump2.txt > user@mac:/tmp/IDEAS> git checkout IDEAS/Resources/ReferenceResults/Dymola/IDEAS_Fluid_HeatExchangers_GroundHeatExchangers_Borefield_Examples_MultipleBoreholesWithHeatPump.txt > user@mac:/tmp/IDEAS> git status > On branch master > Your branch is up to date with 'origin/master'. > > Changes to be committed: > (use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage) > > renamed: IDEAS/Resources/ReferenceResults/Dymola/ideas_Fluid_HeatExchangers_GroundHeatExchangers_Borefield_Examples_MultipleBoreholesWithHeatPump.txt -> IDEAS/Resources/ReferenceResults/Dymola/ideas_Fluid_HeatExchangers_GroundHeatExchangers_Borefield_Examples_MultipleBoreholesWithHeatPump2.txt > > Changes not staged for commit: > (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed) > (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory) > > modified: IDEAS/Resources/ReferenceResults/Dymola/IDEAS_Utilities_Psychrometrics_Functions_Examples_saturationPressure.txt > > user@mac:/tmp/IDEAS>