I have an existing project that has been managed under git. I recently had to do a ground-up rebuild of the computer (OS X Snow Leopard), and returning to the project, git c
If you are using sshfs, add the option -o workaround=rename, as described here: http://alan.lamielle.net/2009/07/08/git-over-sshfs
sshfs
-o workaround=rename