Re: [Rails-devel] How to clean up the Git index?

[brett l. <bre...@gm...>]

On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 9:18 AM, Erik Vos <eri...@xs...> wrote:
> Brett (or anyone else knowing the answer),
>
> How can I remove incorrect 'modified' markers from files in the Index that
> should not be there because nothing has changed?
>
> I'm having this problem with 5 StockMarket.xml files.
> I don't know why Git thinks these files have changed (these are shown as
> modified by 'git status', but all diffs are empty).
>
> I tried 'git rm --cached' but that untracks the files.
>
> Erik.
>

Git will notice whitespace changes, such as tabs converted to spaces
or vice versa, as well as other non-visible changes, such as a change
from Unix-style carriage returns (CR) to Windows-style carriage
returns (CRLF).

Try doing a "git diff" and see what lines it thinks are changed.

---Brett.