Git报告Windows 8上已更改的文件

Question

I have been struggling with this git problem.

The problem is that when I do a fresh clone from GitHub, git reports that some files has changed although I have not touched them.

Often this happens when I switch branches as well. If I go from an unmodified master to another branch and back to master, it says files has been changed in master.

I have been reading about line endings and tried just about everything in that category, but nothing seems to help.

The repository is https://github.com/seesharper/LightInject is case someone would like to try and see if they have the same problem.

A friend of mine had the exact same problem with the same repository on his Windows 8 machine. Then he tried it on Windows 7 and the problem went away.

Does anybody know of any issues with using git on windows 8.

I have also tried this on another Windows 8 machine and it has the same problem.

Answer 1

I experienced the same issue with Windows 7. This is something I did to resolve (you might try):

git clone git@github.com:seesharper/LightInject.git
cd LightInject
git status
git checkout -f -b mine HEAD~
git status
git checkout master
git status
git branch -D mine

Answer 2

I've dealt with this issue in the past - keep in mind that most git installations run on non-windows servers. There's a distinct possibility that what Windows is seeing is actually something where the "filemode" of the file is different than what Linux expects, therefore it sees the file as changed.

Poking around on the internet, there may be a way to fix the filemode issue - but nothing on google is jogging my memory at the moment. I skimmed over this, maybe something in it will help?

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/chromium-dev/0EdNev3NNsw

I can't promise the above has a silver bullet for you, but it seems like there's good discussion about how Windows filemode messes up git indexes, sometimes.