msysGit Tip: Files Constantly Reported as Modified Fix

Posted by on 18 July, 2009 Leave a comment (6) Go to comments

I copied my Mono mcs Git working copy from Linux to Windows for use with MSysGit only to find out that even after git reset –hard almost all files were being reported as modified by git status. It turns out it has to do with the file permissions (executable bit I think) and the inability of msysgit to apply them on Windows.

$ git diff class/Accessibility/makefile.build
diff --git a/class/Accessibility/makefile.build b/class/Accessibility/makefile
old mode 100755
new mode 100644

The fix is to make git ignore some file mode stuff via:

git config core.fileMode false

Another useful setting on Windows is:

git config core.autocrlf true

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    • knocte

      git reset –hard ?

      Are you sure you didn't want to do 'git-clean -d -x -f && git-checkout -f' ?

    • Name

      Note that “repo-config” has been deprecated for a long time now; please use “git config”.

    • Name

      Note that “repo-config” has been deprecated for a long time now; please use “git config”.

    • Name

      Note that “repo-config” has been deprecated for a long time now; please use “git config”.

    • Moodboom

      Perfect, thanks. msysgit seems like quite a huge pile of hackery, issues like this are bound to happen – good to have this workaround!

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