Andrew Vit <andrew@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > I have a Rails project that I'm managing with git and I have a strange > problem with one of the plugin directories. Every time I do `git add .` it > tries to delete itself... Any idea what might be happening? > > andrew$ git status > # On branch master > # Changes to be committed: > # (use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage) > # > # new file: vendor/plugins/restful_authentication > # deleted: vendor/plugins/restful_authentication/CHANGELOG > # deleted: vendor/plugins/restful_authentication/README.textile > # deleted: vendor/plugins/restful_authentication/Rakefile > # deleted: vendor/plugins/restful_authentication/TODO Are you on a case-insensitive filesystem like HFS+? Is it possible that restful_authentication exists as a file in your working directory, but as a directory in Git, but with a different case? What does `git ls-tree HEAD:vendor/plugins` show you as the last committed contents of vendor/plugins? I'm a little stumped, but it sounds like the issues that have come up before due to a case-insensitive filesystem. -- Shawn. -- 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