As the message says: no changes added to commit (use “git add” and/or “git commit -a”) Git has a “staging area” where files need to be added before being committed, you can read an explanation of it here. For your specific example, you can use: git commit -am “save arezzo files” (note the extra a … Read more
Normalize line endings The change that is in the modification is deleting all lines and adding them again. This is because the newlines are being changed between the committed files and the files on disk. Github has a handy page detailing how to deal with this kind of problem, in brief (for linux/OSX), step one … Read more
Use git diff –name-only (with –cached to get the staged files)
This seems like a bug in msysgit indeed. As a workaround, try creating a .gitattributes file containing * -text This will tell git not to perform EOL conversions on any files.
Make sure that your .gitignore is in the root of the working directory, and in that directory run git status and copy the path to the file from the status output and paste it into the .gitignore. If that doesn’t work, then it’s likely that your file is already tracked by Git. You can confirm … Read more
Git’s “similarity index” computation is not, as far as I know, documented anywhere other than in the source, starting with diffcore-delta.c. To compute the similarity index for two files S (source) and D (destination), Git: reads both files computes a hash table of all of the chunks of file S computes a second hash table … Read more
To list untracked files try: git ls-files –others –exclude-standard If you need to pipe the output to xargs, it is wise to mind white spaces using git ls-files -z and xargs -0: git ls-files -z -o –exclude-standard | xargs -0 git add Nice alias for adding untracked files: au = !git add $(git ls-files -o … Read more
I was having this problem on Windows but wasn’t prepared to look into the ramifications of using config –global core.autocrlf false I also wasn’t prepared to abandon other private branches and goodies in my stash and start with a fresh clone. I just need to get something done. Now. This worked for me, on the … Read more