Yes, you are right, am using cygwin, without having the point in mind, i simply thought some thing is going wrong on the git side, I just compared with the gitweb copy on the kernel.org. I just seen in the cygwin faqs, could possibility of case sensitive managed mount in cygwin, have to see if can achieve that. And thanks for giving clarity. -srinivas. On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 7:49 PM, Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > srinivas naga vutukuri schrieb: >> I just done "git status", Its giving the following output. But i >> have't done around these files anything at all, not opened, etc. >> >> ------------- >> # On branch master >> # Changed but not updated: >> # (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed) >> # >> # modified: include/linux/netfilter/xt_connmark.h > ... > > You are on a case-insensitive file system. The linux kernel source > requires a case-sensitive file system because the sources contain both of > these files: > > include/linux/netfilter/xt_connmark.h > include/linux/netfilter/xt_CONNMARK.h > > (ditto for the other cases that you observed). > > -- Hannes > > -- 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