git cherry-pick says local changes exist, but git status says nothing

Question

$ git cherry-pick 5de83068
error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by merge:
        Components/ApplicationEnums/Application.cs
Please, commit yo         


        

Answer 1

I've had this problem when using git on a virtual machine, where the working copy was a VMware shared folder. I don't really know what the solution is. In my case I was able to get git to move away the changes it thought existed via git stash (upon inspection appeared to be completely empty); after the changes had been moved away I could cherry-pick on top of the now clean working copy. (After this, I just deleted the stash.)