I was just git commit'ing, and then I was doing a git rebase to squash several commits into one when the rebase failed. I then did a git checkout -f master git reset --hard but no matter what I do, git thinks that several files have changed. The diff shows all the lines in these several files removed and then added, yet without any changes made to them. git reset --hard doesn't revert the change. When I jump around history with git checkout these files remain in their "changed" state. I even tried "git clone" to create a whole new repo, but one of these several files STILL registered as changed before I made any changes. Any idea what's wrong and how to recover? Observe the below command buffer: (I can upload my repo so you can clone it and perhaps repro it if you want). Andrew@LACKY /c/git/dotnetoauth $ git status # On branch master # Changed but not updated: # (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed) # # modified: tools/Documentation.targets # modified: tools/DotNetOpenAuth.Common.Settings.targets # modified: tools/DotNetOpenAuth.Versioning.targets # modified: tools/Sandcastle/Presentation/vs2005/Content/reference_content.xml # modified: tools/libcheck.ps1 # modified: tools/sandcastle.targets # no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a") Andrew@LACKY /c/git/dotnetoauth $ git reset --hard HEAD is now at 13d37b8 Patching up the bad merges in the phases. Andrew@LACKY /c/git/dotnetoauth $ git status # On branch master # Changed but not updated: # (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed) # # modified: tools/Documentation.targets # modified: tools/DotNetOpenAuth.Common.Settings.targets # modified: tools/DotNetOpenAuth.Versioning.targets # modified: tools/Sandcastle/Presentation/vs2005/Content/reference_content.xml # modified: tools/libcheck.ps1 # modified: tools/sandcastle.targets # no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a") -- 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