Hello, I narrowed it down. It is in "git checkout" if I copy the ".git" dir via "cp -a" and type in "git checkout" it breaks. And it _only_ breaks for subdirectories: (faui04a) [/var/tmp/shit] git checkout D profiles/icpc D profiles/sithglan D sources/boot.msg D sources/busybox-config D sources/config D sources/easix.logo.16 D sources/easixdm D sources/f2 D sources/home-faumachine.tar.gz D sources/home-icpc.tar.gz D sources/home-simigern.tar.gz D sources/home-sithglan.tar.gz D sources/home-sitowert.tar.gz D sources/linuxrc D sources/rc.local and I also see that _one_ file in each subdirectory is checked out but the others are not. Thomas - 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