I made the initial commit. git-gui doesn't return anything either. Something tells me it isn't getting the cwd. Add git status * it will work correctly , but git-gui doesn't give anything. somewhere@something:~/git_test$ git status # On branch master nothing to commit (working directory clean) somewhere@something:~/git_test$ git status * # On branch master # Changes to be committed: # (use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage) # # modified: test/test2.txt # Thanks, Ben On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 8:47 AM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > "Ben Bennett" <benbennett@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> I can't seem to get git status to return that a file has changed. I >> think my environment is hosed up, but I don't know for sure. My >> machine is ubuntu 8.04 with kernel 2.6.24-17-generic #1 SMPx86_64 >> GNU/Linux . I set up a test repo and it added one file to it , >> modified the file and saved . Doing git status returns nothing, git >> gui finds no modified files. Doing git add * finds the modified file >> and stages it. I can get someone a strace for the git status it is >> only about a 1 page. > > You should have got something like the following: > > # On branch master > # Changes to be committed: > # (use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage) > # > # new file: bar > # > # Changed but not updated: > # (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed) > # > # modified: bar > # > > BTW. you have made initial commit, did you? > > -- > Jakub Narebski > Poland > ShadeHawk on #git > -- 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
