Hello Sebastain , The issue remains the same , i'm unable to perform commit . Below is the o/p bash-4.2$ git add drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c bash-4.2$ git commit -s -v usage: git diff-index [-m] [--cached] [<common diff options>] <tree-ish> [<path>...] common diff options: -z output diff-raw with lines terminated with NUL. -p output patch format. -u synonym for -p. --patch-with-raw output both a patch and the diff-raw format. --stat show diffstat instead of patch. --numstat show numeric diffstat instead of patch. --patch-with-stat output a patch and prepend its diffstat. --name-only show only names of changed files. --name-status show names and status of changed files. --full-index show full object name on index lines. --abbrev=<n> abbreviate object names in diff-tree header and diff-raw. -R swap input file pairs. -B detect complete rewrites. -M detect renames. -C detect copies. --find-copies-harder try unchanged files as candidate for copy detection. -l<n> limit rename attempts up to <n> paths. -O<file> reorder diffs according to the <file>. -S<string> find filepair whose only one side contains the string. --pickaxe-all show all files diff when -S is used and hit is found. -a --text treat all files as text. bash-4.2$ git commit usage: git diff-index [-m] [--cached] [<common diff options>] <tree-ish> [<path>...] common diff options: -z output diff-raw with lines terminated with NUL. -p output patch format. -u synonym for -p. --patch-with-raw output both a patch and the diff-raw format. --stat show diffstat instead of patch. --numstat show numeric diffstat instead of patch. --patch-with-stat output a patch and prepend its diffstat. --name-only show only names of changed files. --name-status show names and status of changed files. --full-index show full object name on index lines. --abbrev=<n> abbreviate object names in diff-tree header and diff-raw. -R swap input file pairs. -B detect complete rewrites. -M detect renames. -C detect copies. --find-copies-harder try unchanged files as candidate for copy detection. -l<n> limit rename attempts up to <n> paths. -O<file> reorder diffs according to the <file>. -S<string> find filepair whose only one side contains the string. --pickaxe-all show all files diff when -S is used and hit is found. -a --text treat all files as text. bash-4.2$ Regards Santosh Pai On Tuesday, June 16, 2015 11:53 AM, Sébastien Hinderer <Sebastien.Hinderer@ens-lyon.org> wrote: Hi Santhosh, You could try: git add drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c git commit Does this work? Sébastien. _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies