Hi All.
I have experienced something weird today.
I have a repository hosted on a GitLab server on my LAN and when I clone that
repository to a linux box and a windows box I get different files!
It is very hard to explain in words, so I have recorded my desktop while
reproducing it, which I can do consistently:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5234017/git-clone-produces-different-results.ogv
I have no ideas what is wrong or why it behaves the way it does, but I am
actually pretty scared now. The repository has been updated from as a subtree
from another repository, but that should not create such behavior?
Can anybody give me some hints on what may be wrong and how I might get
identical clones again?
Cheers,
Morten
On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 10:45:47AM +0200, Morten W. J. wrote:
I have a repository hosted on a GitLab server on my LAN and when I clone that
repository to a linux box and a windows box I get different files!
It is very hard to explain in words, so I have recorded my desktop while
reproducing it, which I can do consistently:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5234017/git-clone-produces-different-results.ogv
I have no ideas what is wrong or why it behaves the way it does, but I am
actually pretty scared now. The repository has been updated from as a subtree
from another repository, but that should not create such behavior?
Just a blind guess, but might you have two files with names that differ
only in case, and on Windows one is overwriting the other because you
have a case-insensitive filesystem?
Try:
git ls-files -s | grep -i src/LogEventSubscriber.h
to see what is in the index (which is case-sensitive, and is the source
from which git checks the files out into the working tree).
-Peff
Hi Jeff.
Hmmm. You are the master of blind guessing - spot on.
Also, that is kind of embaressing to me. However, should your way cross mine,
you hereby have a voucer for a drink after your choice as long as it is beer.
Thanks,
Morten.
Just a blind guess, but might you have two files with names that differ
only in case, and on Windows one is overwriting the other because you
have a case-insensitive filesystem?
Try:
git ls-files -s | grep -i src/LogEventSubscriber.h
to see what is in the index (which is case-sensitive, and is the source
from which git checks the files out into the working tree).
-Peff