Package: git-core Version: 1:1.5.5.1-1 I recently did an upgrade on my system that caused git to stop recording revisions of useful files I'm changing in for my PhD project. The problem seems to be associated with the case-insensitivity of the FAT32 system (actually the main reason why I changed from subversion to git in the first place). Here's a sequence of commands to demonstrate the problem:
~$ cat /proc/mounts /dev/sda8 / reiserfs rw 0 0 /dev/sda6 /itsshared vfat rw,nosuid,nodev,uid=1000,gid=1000,fmask=0000,dmask=0000,codepage=cp437,iocharset=utf8 0 0 Non-working file system (vfat): ~$ cd /itsshared/ /itsshared$ mkdir git-test /itsshared$ cd git-test /itsshared/git-test$ git-init Initialized empty Git repository in .git/ /itsshared/git-test$ ls .git branches config description head hooks info objects refs /itsshared/git-test$ git-ls-files && echo 'cake!' fatal: Not a git repository Working file system (reiserfs): /itsshared/git-test$ cd ~$ mkdir git-test ~$ cd git-test ~/git-test$ git-init Initialized empty Git repository in .git/ ~/git-test$ ls .git HEAD branches config description hooks info objects refs ~/git-test$ git-ls-files && echo 'cake!' cake! The files are on a FAT32 system because I want to be able to access them using Windows on the same computer (in those very rare cases when I need to boot into Windows). There doesn't seem to be any data loss, but being able to keep revisions/backups of my files is fairly important to me, particularly at the writing-up stage of my project. Cheers, David Hall (gringer) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
