[GLLUG] Really weird behaviour from git

[James Courtier-Dutton]

On 2 January 2014 12:11, John Winters <john at sinodun.org.uk> wrote:
> I set out to do a bit of bug fixing today, but I'm being stymied by some
> really weird behaviour from git.  Things seem to be getting staged without
> me asking for them to be.  An illustrative transcript, cut and pasted from
> my terminal session:
>
> john at nuc:~/Work/Coding/markbook/importsb/code$ git status
> # On branch master
> # Changes to be committed:
> #   (use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage)
> #
> #       new file:   ../../notes/Calendar/2014/01/02.txt
> #
> # Changes not staged for commit:
> #   (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
> #   (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working
> directory)
> #
> #       modified:   database.rb
> #       modified:   setrecord.rb
> #
> # Untracked files:
> #   (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
> #
> #       able.txt
> john at nuc:~/Work/Coding/markbook/importsb/code$ git diff setrecord.rb
> john at nuc:~/Work/Coding/markbook/importsb/code$ git status
> # On branch master
> # Changes to be committed:
> #   (use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage)
> #
> #       new file:   able.txt
> #       modified:   database.rb
> #       modified:   setrecord.rb
> #       new file:   ../../notes/Calendar/2014/01/02.txt
> #
> john at nuc:~/Work/Coding/markbook/importsb/code$
>
>
>
> Note that to start with I have two modified but un-staged files, and one new
> file also un-staged.  I issue a "git diff" to see the changes in
> setrecord.rb and it says there are none.  Then I do another git status, and
> suddenly those three files are now staged.
>
> Can anyone explain this?  It's never happened to me before.
>

You must are doing something.
For example, only a "git add" would have moved the able.txt to the
"changes to be commited" list.
Are you editing them in a IDE, or with something else like VIM?
The IDE might be doing git commands for you behind the scenes.
Is there a cron job doing the git adds?
Do you have shell aliases set up, that might be doing git adds when
you type something else.
type "aliases" to find out.