Ian Brown venit, vidit, dixit 16.10.2008 18:03: > Hello, ] > > I have a diskOnKey which has a vfat filesystem. > I ran there: > git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6.git > the I copied all the wireless-2.6 folder to an ext3 partition. How did you copy it? > There I ran git diff. > > I get many messages like these (probably on all files of the repository): > > diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING > deleted file mode 100644 > index ca442d3..0000000 > --- a/COPYING > +++ /dev/null > @@ -1,356 +0,0 @@ > - > > and then all the lines of the file with "-" in the beginning, as if > they are empty. > > Why is it so ? > Is there any way to overcome it ? > Must I run "git clone" on an ext3 DiskOnKey only ? git diff gives you the difference between the index and the work tree. The index is the one you copied from vfat; git doesn't see the files on the ext3 work tree. Do you see them with ls? One by one I would try git status git reset git reset --hard in order to reconcile your index with your checkout. You probably need the last one. Michael -- 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
