Problems SourceTree listing files in local repository as deleted
Asked by Miguel Zarate:

We are two developers working on a large project which involves 30 small satelllite web sites from two differente stations. We have been experiencing problems with SourceTree in the sense that sometimes in the OSX station the area "Work Copy Changes" lists many files as deleted and reques

A. Main issue:

1. Sometimes, before committing or pushing any changes on the repository, on the MAC station SourceTree shows on the working changes area that many files have been deleted. But when we check if the files still exist on the project folder of the MAC, they are still there.

2. We cannot proceed to pull or pushing any more changes until we go file by file ignoring the changes for each file or we make another commit confirming the deletion of the files.

3. This seems to be happening erratically when one of us pushes changes onto the repository.

4. Although we don't know if it may be related to this, another issue that has been happening as well is that the folders requested to be ignored on the gitignore file are not ignored.

B. Configuration

1. A Samsung laptop running on Windows 7 and a MAC with OSX

2. For managing (pushing, pulling, committing) contents on the repository, we are using the latest versions of SourceTree (1.5.2 for Windows and 1.9 for OSX)

3. We are using the same software for development (PhpStorm)

4. We are using one master repository and branch for managing all the changes on the satellites

5. The configuration of the GIT config files is below:

|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Windows station:                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      | OSX station:                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
| \[core\] repositoryformatversion = 0 filemode = false bare = false logallrefupdates = true symlinks = false ignorecase = true hideDotFiles = dotGitOnly \[remote "origin"\] url = dlaggit@dev.dreamit.de:lotto-satellites fetch = +refs/heads/\*:refs/remotes/origin/\* \[branch "master"\] remote = origin merge = refs/heads/master | \[core\] repositoryformatversion = 0 filemode = true bare = false logallrefupdates = true ignorecase = true precomposeunicode = false \[remote "origin"\] url = dlaggit@dev.dreamit.de:lotto-satellites fetch = +refs/heads/\*:refs/remotes/origin/\* \[branch "master"\] remote = origin merge = refs/heads/master |

C. What we have tried so far

1. Discarding the changes on the files. The problem has arisen again weeks later with different files

2. Reinstalling SourceTree and making the changes below (highlighted) to the git config file on the OSX machine:

\[core\]

repositoryformatversion = 0

filemode = false

bare = false

logallrefupdates = true

ignorecase = true

precomposeunicode = true

\[remote "origin"\]

url = dlaggit@dev.dreamit.de:lotto-satellites

fetch = +refs/heads/\*:refs/remotes/origin/\*

\[branch "master"\]

remote = origin

merge = refs/heads/master

3. After trying the solution above, some of the files on the working copy changes area no longer appear as deleted but as modified (even though they had not been modified by us), some of them appear recently added and some remain as deleted. When we check the files in the local folder, the files are still there.

D. We request advice on how to proceed to fix this issue. We are attaching screenshots of the configuration of SourceTree on both stations.

Configuration of the Windows station:

![](../../upfiles/configWindows_1_1.png)![](../../upfiles/configWindows_2.png)  

Configuration of the OSX: ![](../../upfiles/config_OSX_2.png)![](../../upfiles/config_OSX_1_1.png)


Answers:
author: Seth
body: This is a long shot, but try comparing the case of the filenames that keep trying to be deleted between the mac and windows.

If that isn't the solution, please post the contents of the .gitignore file that you say isn't working.

comments: author: Miguel Zarate
body: Thanks for the prompt reply. The case and type of the files is pretty much all of them: .php .json , image files, .js etcetera. As for the gitnore, I manage to ignore individual files and file extensions, but not the cache and .idea folders and their contents. Below are the contents of the my .gitignore file

\*\*/cache

/cache

\*\*/.idea/

.idea

cache/


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