Re: Question about git

[Claude Paroz <claude 2xlibre net>]

Le lundi 25 mai 2009 à 13:52 +0100, Simos Xenitellis a écrit :
> On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Tirumurti Vasudevan
> <agnihot3 gmail com> wrote:
> > running into similar problem again i resolved it following the advice
> > offered here.
> > i post this here so that anyone with similar problem can benefit
> >
> > ---
> > drtv narayana:~$ cd git/gedit/po
> > drtv narayana:~/git/gedit/po$ git status
> > # On branch master
> > # Changed but not updated:
> > #   (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
> > #
> > #       modified:   ../AUTHORS
> > #       modified:   ../BUGS
> > blah blah many lines...
> > #       modified:   ../data/gedit.pc.in
> 
> This is extremely weird. Files such as 'AUTHORS', 'BUGS' are rarely changed.
> I cannot understand how it is possible for these files to get modified when you
> simply use 'git' commands in the repository.
> Even if you compiled 'gedit', these files should not be affected in any way.

One possible issue may happen if files are hosted on a FAT filesystem
(where the mount mask may change the file permissions, notably the
execute permission).

Claude