git status shows modifications, git checkout — 2019-01-01 16:25发布 站内问答 / 前沿技术 1307 21 4

Question

I would like to remove all changes to my working copy.
Running git status shows files modified.
Nothing I do seems to remove these modifications.
E.g.:

rbellamy@PROMETHEUS /d/Development/rhino-etl (master)
$ git status
# On branch master
# Changed but not updated:
#   (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
#   (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)
#
#       modified:   Rhino.Etl.Core/Enumerables/CachingEnumerable.cs
#       modified:   Rhino.Etl.Core/Pipelines/SingleThreadedPipelineExecuter.cs
#       modified:   Rhino.Etl.Tests/Rhino.Etl.Tests.csproj
#       modified:   Rhino.Etl.Tests/SingleThreadedPipelineExecuterTest.cs
#
no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")

rbellamy@PROMETHEUS /d/Development/rhino-etl (master)
$ git checkout -- Rhino.Etl.Core/Enumerables/CachingEnumerable.cs

rbellamy@PROMETHEUS /d/Development/rhino-etl (master)
$ git status
# On branch master
# Changed but not updated:
#   (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
#   (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)
#
#       modified:   Rhino.Etl.Core/Enumerables/CachingEnumerable.cs
#       modified:   Rhino.Etl.Core/Pipelines/SingleThreadedPipelineExecuter.cs
#       modified:   Rhino.Etl.Tests/Rhino.Etl.Tests.csproj
#       modified:   Rhino.Etl.Tests/SingleThreadedPipelineExecuterTest.cs
#
no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")

rbellamy@PROMETHEUS /d/Development/rhino-etl (master)
$ git checkout `git ls-files -m`

rbellamy@PROMETHEUS /d/Development/rhino-etl (master)
$ git status
# On branch master
# Changed but not updated:
#   (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
#   (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)
#
#       modified:   Rhino.Etl.Core/Enumerables/CachingEnumerable.cs
#       modified:   Rhino.Etl.Core/Pipelines/SingleThreadedPipelineExecuter.cs
#       modified:   Rhino.Etl.Tests/Rhino.Etl.Tests.csproj
#       modified:   Rhino.Etl.Tests/SingleThreadedPipelineExecuterTest.cs
#
no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")

rbellamy@PROMETHEUS /d/Development/rhino-etl (master)
$ git reset --hard HEAD
HEAD is now at 6c857e7 boo libraries updated to 2.0.9.2 and rhino.dsl.dll updated.

rbellamy@PROMETHEUS /d/Development/rhino-etl (master)
$ git status
# On branch master
# Changed but not updated:
#   (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
#   (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)
#
#       modified:   Rhino.Etl.Core/Enumerables/CachingEnumerable.cs
#       modified:   Rhino.Etl.Core/Pipelines/SingleThreadedPipelineExecuter.cs
#       modified:   Rhino.Etl.Tests/Rhino.Etl.Tests.csproj
#       modified:   Rhino.Etl.Tests/SingleThreadedPipelineExecuterTest.cs
#
no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")

Answer 1

This has been driving me crazy, especially that I couldn`t fix this without any of the solutions found online. Here is how I solved it. Can't take the credits here since this is the work of a colleague :)

Source of the problem: My initial installation of git was without auto line conversion on windows. This caused my initial commit to GLFW to be without the proper line ending.

Note: This is only a local solution. The next guy cloning the repo will still be stuck with this problem. A permanent solution can be found here: https://help.github.com/articles/dealing-with-line-endings/#re-normalizing-a-repository.

Setup: Xubuntu 12.04 Git repo with glfw project

Problem: Unable to reset glfw files. They always show as modified, regardless of what I tried.

Solved:

edit .gitattributes

Comment out the line:    # text=auto

Save the file

restore .gitattributes:   git checkout .gitattributes

Answer 2

Another solution that may work for people, since none of the text options worked for me:

1. Replace the content of .gitattributes with a single line: * binary. This tells git to treat every file as a binary file that it can't do anything with.
2. Check that message for the offending files is gone; if it's not you can git checkout -- <files> to restore them to the repository version
3. git checkout -- .gitattributes to restore the .gitattributes file to its initial state
4. Check that the files are still not marked as changed.

Answer 3

If you clone a repository and instantly see pending changes, then the repository is in an inconsistent state. Please do NOT comment out * text=auto from the .gitattributes file. That was put there specifically because the owner of the repository wants all files stored consistently with LF line endings.

As stated by HankCa, following the instructions on https://help.github.com/articles/dealing-with-line-endings/ is the way to go to fix the problem. Easy button:

git clone git@host:repo-name
git checkout -b normalize-line-endings
git add .
git commit -m "Normalize line endings"
git push
git push -u origin normalize-line-endings

Then merge (or pull request) the branch to the owner of the repo.

Answer 4

I ran into this problem few times before. I'm currently developing on Windows 10 machine provided by my employer. Today, this particular git behavior was caused by me creating a new branch from my "develop" branch. For some reason, after I switched back to "develop" branch, some seemingly random files persisted and were showing up as "modified" in "git status".

Also, at that point I couldn't checkout another branch, so I was stuck on my "develop" branch.

This is what I did:

$ git log

I noticed that the new branch I created from "develop" earlier today was showing in the first "commit" message, being referenced at the end "HEAD -> develop, origin/develop, origin/HEAD, The-branch-i-created-earlier-today".

Since I didn't really need it, I deleted it:

$ git branch -d The-branch-i-created-earlier-today

The changed files were still showing up, so I did:

$ git stash

This solved my problem:

$ git status
On branch develop
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/develop'.

nothing to commit, working tree clean

Of course $ git stash list will show stashed changes, and since I had few and didn't need any of my stashes, I did $ git stash clear to DELETE ALL STASHES.

NOTE: I haven't tried doing what someone suggested here before me:

$ git rm --cached -r .
$ git reset --hard

This may have worked as well, I'll be sure to try it next time I run into this problem.

Answer 5

There are multiple problems the can cause this behaviour:

Line ending normalization

I've had these kinds of problems too. It comes down to git automatically converting crlf to lf. This is typically caused by mixed line endings in a single file. The file gets normalized in the index, but when git then denormalizes it again to diff it against the file in the working tree, the result is different.

But if you want to fix this, you should disable core.autocrlf, change all line endings to lf, and then enable it again. Or you can disable it altogether by doing:

git config --global core.autocrlf false

Instead of core.autocrlf, you can also consider using .gitattribute files. This way, you can make sure everyone using the repo uses the same normalization rules, preventing mixed line endings getting into the repository.

Also consider setting core.safecrlf to warn if you want git to warn you when a non-reversible normalization would be performed.

The git manpages say this:

CRLF conversion bears a slight chance of corrupting data. autocrlf=true will convert CRLF to LF during commit and LF to CRLF during checkout. A file that contains a mixture of LF and CRLF before the commit cannot be recreated by git. For text files this is the right thing to do: it corrects line endings such that we have only LF line endings in the repository. But for binary files that are accidentally classified as text the conversion can corrupt data.

Case-insensitive file systems

On case-insensitive filesystems, when the same filename with different casing is in the repository, git tries to checkout both, but only one ends up on the file system. When git tries to compare the second one, it would compare it to the wrong file.

The solution would either be switching to a non-case insensitive filesystem, but this in most cases is not feasible or renaming and committing one of the files on another filesystem.

Answer 6

I solved it by editing .git / config, adding:

[branch "name_branch"]
    remote = origin
    merge = refs/heads/name_branch

Then I went to .git / refs / heads / name_branch and place the id of the last commitenter code here