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From: Mikolas <mikolas.janota@gmail•com>
To: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: What does "modified" in git status mean?
Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 16:57:52 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20120122T174204-274@post.gmane.org> (raw)

I am using git version 1.7.5.1 under cygwin and I'm getting behavior that I'm 
not understanding.

When I do 'git status' in the root directory of the repository, it shows no 
difference. Once I cd to a subdirectory, it starts showing modifications. 
However, 'git diff' shows nothing. 

So it looks something like this:
$ git status
# On branch master
nothing to commit (working directory clean)

$ cd foo
$ git status
# On branch master
# Changes not staged for commit:
#   (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
#   (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)
#
#       modified:   ../foo/bar

$ git diff
$

I put the following in my gitconfig but that doesn't seem to be doing much.
[core]
       trustctime = false
       autocrlf = input

So my questions are 
1) Is there some way how to tell status to tell me *why* the files are marked 
as modified?
2) Is it normal that git status behaves differently in different directories?

--mikolas



 

next             reply	other threads:[~2012-01-22 17:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-22 16:57 Mikolas [this message]
2012-01-22 17:56 ` What does "modified" in git status mean? Seth Robertson
2012-01-23 20:07 ` Phillip Susi
2012-01-24 18:57 ` Jeff King

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