TortoiseGit icon overlays showing modified when it isn't

Question

On one of my repos TortoiseGit shows the red exclamation mark (indicating a modified file), but I have not modified it. Diff'ing the repo shows no changes. It has been like this for a while, during which time I have made commits; after a commit it flicks to a green tick for a second or two, before returning to a red exclamation mark. My two other local repos do not have the same problem. I have read other threads and have tried the following without any luck:

• Refreshing Windows explorer
• Rebooting
• Killing TGitCache.exe in task manager
• Switching 'Unversioned files mark parent folder as modified' on and back off
• Switching the status cache to none and back to default
• Switching OverlaysCaseSensitive to false

Very grateful for any help.

Thanks, Tom

Answer 1

Dirty Workaround: Try fiddling with "Status Cache"

(Answer inspired by comment on original question.)

You can set several options for the icons here:

TortoiseGit | Settings | Icon Overlays | Status Cache

And there's a nice and big list of pros and cons in the TortoisGit docs.

But it was an easy choice for me: There were only two acceptable options for me.

Because I had the same problem and wanted recursive updates. And only the "Default" and "Shell Extended" options will work recursively. -- And in my case "Default" did NOT work. So I just tried the only remaining one: "Shell Extended" and that did the trick. (I did not care about any of the disadvantages listed in the docs.)

But that's only a hacky workaround. I'm not super happy with it. Since "Default" really SHOULD have worked. (And each of the methods has a list of "Disadvantages" in the docs entry.)