Git status reports untracked on tracked files

Git status reports untracked on tracked files

[Andrey Kiyanovsky]

I would be grateful for any thoughts about the follow problem.

Git status reports untracked files:

    $ git status
    # On branch master
    # Untracked files:
    #   (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
    #
    # resource.enlighten/map/enlighten_test/.enlighten/__build_object__/geometry/land_9/processed/
    nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track)

But we have files at this directory at index:

    $ git ls-tree -r HEAD |grep land_9/processed/root.pim
    100644 blob 9eeca5c75dc2c945600b6e0d253a8cb8191b7e80
resource.enlighten/map/enlighten_test/.enlighten/__build_object__/geometry/land_9/processed/root.pim

I have checked this error appear after the first commit, that added this file.

I have tried:

1. Clone repo.
2. Clean/Checkout file (as described at this [1] article) - after
checkout status is untracked.
3. Copy full directory resource.enlighten/ to another repo and add
commit - no errors.
4. Run git fsck - no errors.

Git version 1.8.1.2. for Windows

Git config:

[core]
	repositoryformatversion = 0
	filemode = false
	bare = false
	logallrefupdates = true
	symlinks = false
	ignorecase = true
	hideDotFiles = dotGitOnly
	compression = 1

Thank you in advance.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11525358/git-untracked-files-list-is-wrong

Re: Git status reports untracked on tracked files

[Jeff King]

On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 11:40:56AM +0300, Andrey Kiyanovsky wrote:

> Git version 1.8.1.2. for Windows
> 
> Git config:
> 
> [core]
> 	repositoryformatversion = 0
> 	filemode = false
> 	bare = false
> 	logallrefupdates = true
> 	symlinks = false
> 	ignorecase = true
> 	hideDotFiles = dotGitOnly
> 	compression = 1

In the past there have been some problems with status listings of
untracked files when core.ignorecase is in use. I fixed some cases with
a commit that went into v1.7.8, but some problems remained. Karsten
Blees (cc'd) did some work that went into git v1.8.1.6, but I do not
know off-hand if it would fix your case or not.

Can you try with a more recent version of git?

-Peff

Re: Git status reports untracked on tracked files

[Andrey Kiyanovsky]

I have tried Git 1.8.3 for Windows. Case is fixed. Thank you very much!

2013/6/4 Jeff King <peff@peff.net>:
> On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 11:40:56AM +0300, Andrey Kiyanovsky wrote:
>
>> Git version 1.8.1.2. for Windows
>>
>> Git config:
>>
>> [core]
>>       repositoryformatversion = 0
>>       filemode = false
>>       bare = false
>>       logallrefupdates = true
>>       symlinks = false
>>       ignorecase = true
>>       hideDotFiles = dotGitOnly
>>       compression = 1
>
> In the past there have been some problems with status listings of
> untracked files when core.ignorecase is in use. I fixed some cases with
> a commit that went into v1.7.8, but some problems remained. Karsten
> Blees (cc'd) did some work that went into git v1.8.1.6, but I do not
> know off-hand if it would fix your case or not.
>
> Can you try with a more recent version of git?
>
> -Peff

Re: Git status reports untracked on tracked files

[Karsten Blees]

Am 04.06.2013 11:05, schrieb Andrey Kiyanovsky:
> I have tried Git 1.8.3 for Windows. Case is fixed. Thank you very much!
> 
> 2013/6/4 Jeff King <peff@peff.net>:
>> On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 11:40:56AM +0300, Andrey Kiyanovsky wrote:
>>
>>> Git version 1.8.1.2. for Windows
>>>
>>> Git config:
>>>
>>> [core]
>>>       repositoryformatversion = 0
>>>       filemode = false
>>>       bare = false
>>>       logallrefupdates = true
>>>       symlinks = false
>>>       ignorecase = true
>>>       hideDotFiles = dotGitOnly
>>>       compression = 1
>>
>> In the past there have been some problems with status listings of
>> untracked files when core.ignorecase is in use. I fixed some cases with
>> a commit that went into v1.7.8, but some problems remained. Karsten
>> Blees (cc'd) did some work that went into git v1.8.1.6, but I do not
>> know off-hand if it would fix your case or not.
>>

Yep, the hash collision bug can definitely cause this with ignorecase=true, glad it helped.

Another case in which Git for Windows will report tracked files as untracked is if you upgrade from < 1.7.10 with non-ASCII file names in the repository. Particularly annoying are hyphens (\u00ad), which look just like ASCII minus (\u002d). See [1] for details.

[1] https://github.com/msysgit/msysgit/wiki/Git-for-Windows-Unicode-Support