Hi all,
As part of learning a bit more about git workflows, I thought I'd
poke around a large and high-traffic repo, so I cloned Linus'
linux-2.6 repository today from
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
After the clone was done, I changed into the repo's directory and ran
a 'git status' (just out of habit), and it showed a bunch of
uncommitted, unstaged changes.
Here's a log of the terminal during this (I removed no-ops like 'ls',
and I inserted line breaks before each prompt for readability):
http://gist.github.com/63027
Doing a 'git diff' on the net/ subdirectory showed that the changes
were sensible - i.e. it wasn't random corruption or anything. The ones
I looked through were cleanups to part of the TCP code (you can see
them in the gist linked above).
Is this normal or expected? My understanding was that a clone first
received the current HEAD and its history, and then checked out the
current state of it as the working copy. In any case, I would have
expected the repositories at git.kernel.org to be bare and as such
have no working copy for uncommitted changes to be in.
My system is a Mac OS X 10.5.6 box (aluminium MacBook); some details
are below.
This may well be normal behaviour, but I asked about it in
freenode:#git and no one had heard of it happening before.
Cheers
Ben Hoskings
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$ uname -a
Darwin hat 9.6.0 Darwin Kernel Version 9.6.0: Mon Nov 24 17:37:00 PST
2008; root:xnu-1228.9.59~1/RELEASE_I386 i386
$ which git
/usr/local/bin/git
$ git --version
git version 1.6.1.2
$ df /
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/disk0s2 233Gi 213Gi 19Gi 92% /
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