[msysGit] git reset --hard doesn't seem to work

[John]

I've spent a few hours looking for the solution to this.  After a
create a file in a git repo, it is rightly listed in the output of
'git status' as 'Untracked'.  Then after I run a 'git reset --hard',
the file is still there in the output.  I can even 'git commit -a' and
the file would be commited, but really, I want to reset --hard.


Is there a workaround?

I'm running Windows XP.

git-1.5.5-preview20080413.