Git checkout and reset on Windows occasionally shows random files have changed

Question

Often when I do a checkout of a different branch, or a reset, I will get \'permission denied\' errors from windows for one to a dozen files - but the particular files vary f

Answer 1

It might be the Windows Search Indexer, which tries do index files as they are created. I ran into this issue with svn checkout and had to exclude that directory from indexing before I could successfully checkout a full project.