Re: git and filesystem problems (ext3 and vfat)
From: Michael J Gruber <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:45:29
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?
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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