Re: Files that cannot be added to the index

[seanh <snhmnd@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 04:12:33PM -0500, Shaun Ruffell wrote:
> Not sure if this is your problem exactly but awhile back I ran into
> something similar to what you describe and tracked it down to the
> fact that my filesystem was case insensitive. i.e.

My filesystem (HFS+ on OSX Lion) is case-insensitive, yeah. I bet you're
right, because in one repo the modified file shows up in `git status` as
LOG.txt but in the output from `ls` it is called `Log.txt`. It's the
same in the other repo that has the problem, the case of the filename
that is having the problem is different in `git status` and `ls`.

Perhaps the problem might have been introduced by moving the repo from a
case-sensitive to an insensitive filesystem? Or by originally starting
the repo on a sensitive fs and then using git clone to clone it onto an
insensitive one. Or, maybe at some point I committed a change to the
case of the filename and that introduced a problem on case-insenstive
filesystems.

Did you find a way around the problem? I guess that the repo does not
really have any uncommitted changes, so I just want to convince `git
status` and `git diff` of this.