I have found the solution. The issue was the case-insensitive file system employed on OS X Darwin. Renaming the files to avoid name-insensitive collisions fixed the messages.
On Thursday, June 5, 2014 10:59:05 AM UTC-7, Rich Cook wrote: > > I have a working copy directory and lots of its files are being marked as > having "typechange" status. It spews out lots of these things and makes it > hard to use git. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
