Question

I have a submodule that git diff is reporting as dirty. So, I cd into the submodule’s repo, check the git status and see that one file is reporting as changed.

# 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:   Main.cs

Doing a git add Main.cs or git add --force Main.cs does nothing. No messages are shown and git status reports the exact same.

Also this file doesn’t match anything in .gitignore.

I don’t even know where to go from here!

git version 1.7.11.msysgit.1

Answer 1

Try one of this:

• stash/unstash it
• copy file to another place, checkout it discarding changes, then replace freshly checked out file with saved one
• if nothing above helps, git rm’ it and then add again