Re: git and filesystem problems (ext3 and vfat)

Hello,
Thanks for you quick answer.

ls shows the files.

git status shows:
fatal: Not a git repository
Regards,
IB

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 6:17 PM, Michael J Gruber
[off-list ref] wrote:

Ian Brown venit, vidit, dixit 16.10.2008 18:03:

quoted

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?

quoted

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