Git status reports untracked on tracked files

Question

Git status reports untracked files:

$ git status
# On branch master
# Untracked files:
#   (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
#
# resource.enlighten/map/enlighten_test/.enlighten/__build_object__/geometry/land_9/processed/
nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track)

But we have this file at index:

$ git ls-tree -r HEAD |grep land_9/processed/root.pim
100644 blob 9eeca5c75dc2c945600b6e0d253a8cb8191b7e80    resource.enlighten/map/enlighten_test/.enlighten/__build_object__/geometry/land_9/processed/root.pim

I have checked this error appear after the first commit, that added this file.

I have tried:

Clone repo.
Clean/Checkout file (as described at this article) - after checkout the same untracked status.
Copy full directory resource.enlighten/ to another repo and add commit - no errors.
Run git fsck - no errors.

Git version 1.8.1.2.

Thank you in advance for any thoughts.

P.S. This case is fixed in Git for Windows 1.8.3.

Strange. Note that the untracked "file" is actually a directory, which Git doesn't track unless it has contents. — Fred Foo, May 28 '13 at 15:50
I know that the last time I ran into this problem, someone had committed two files that differed only in case in Linux. They then tried to access the repo from a Mac (case-insensitive file system). — TheBuzzSaw, May 28 '13 at 15:55
`processed/`, which is what git is claiming is untracked is not that file. — cjc343, May 28 '13 at 18:19
Git doesn't process directories. There is tracked files in processed/. — Andrey Kiyanovsky, May 29 '13 at 08:27

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered May 28 '13 at 19:10

Case insensitivity on a Mac is a problem. You might try

git config core.ignorecase true

If true, this option enables various workarounds to enable git to work better on filesystems that are not case sensitive, like FAT. For example, if a directory listing finds "makefile" when git expects "Makefile", git will assume it is really the same file, and continue to remember it as "Makefile".

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 04 '13 at 09:09

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This case is fixed in Git for Windows 1.8.3.

answered Jun 04 '13 at 09:09

Andrey Kiyanovsky

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