git says “not under version control” for just-checked-out file

Question

I have the distinct impression my Git repo is somehow mangled.

Here\'s the sequence I\'m doing:

1. git clone [remote\'s clone string]

   This creates,

Answer 1

Since git is case sensitive, but the OS is not, git thinks the path is wrong when it actually exists with different caps.

A programmatic way to fix this can be deleting the conflicting path from the OS and then doing a git reset --hard HEAD or checkout the directory from the HEAD.