On Monday, July 1, 2024 4:15 PM, brian m. carlson wrote: >On 2024-07-01 at 15:34:04, Alec Sanders wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I am running into an issue with Git and Gaia files This error persists >> when I perform a git checkout or git merge. >> The error is as follows >> >> error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten >> by checkout: >> >> *Insert filepath here* >> Filepath directs the user to the project folder and within it, Assets, >> Gaia User Data, Sessions, ... , Terrain data, etc >> >> Please commit your changes or stash them before you switch branches. >> aborting > >This message isn't particular to any given type of file. What it means is that your >files are modified in the working tree and the operation you want to perform (a >checkout or a merge) will modify the working tree. Because doing that operation >would destroy data, Git asks you to do something specific to make your working >tree clean before you can do that operation. > >I'm not familiar with Gaia, but in the case that you're using Git LFS, this could be >caused by using Git LFS incorrectly, whether by you or someone else, that can lead >to files being perpetually marked modified. >If a file is tracked as a Git LFS file (that is, the file type is listed as `filter=lfs` in >`.gitattributes`), but someone has checked in the file without installing or enabling >Git LFS (that is, as a regular file), then the file will end up always modified. I have seen this situation resulting from security attribute mismatches under Windows. If the Gaia generated files are executable and core.filemode=true and/or the files are not added with --chmod=+x, this can be persistent. This sometimes gets past git status in a Cygwin shell but shows up as a difference in ECLIPSE. >That happens because if the file is updated in the working tree, Git tries to run the >clean filter to turn it into a pointer file, and since that differs from what's in the >repository (which is the full file), Git marks it as modified. Attempting to check out >or reset the file causes the same thing to occur, resulting in the same situation. > >In any event, if you _do_ want to keep the changes, you should run `git stash` to >stash the changes, and then checkout or merge. If you _don't_ want the changes >and you are really certain you want to destroy all of them, you can run `git reset -- >hard` (this really does destroy them, so be careful). > >If you have the Git LFS problem I mentioned above, `git reset --hard` will not fix the >problem. In such a case, you will need to do `git add --renormalize .` and then `git >commit` to fix the state of the branch. >You'll need to do this to every affected branch. You can also run `git lfs fsck -- >pointers BASE..HEAD` (substituting `BASE` and `HEAD`) in your CI system, which will >exit nonzero and print an error if someone does this again. --Randall
