No lowercased collisions, no exact dupes, no shared inodes among tracked files. So all 158 tracked names are distinct and each resolves to a real file — meaning there genuinely are 158 distinct tracked entries but

ls

counts 157. The gap is a file

ls

isn't showing (likely a name differing only in case from another, which the case-insensitive

ls

de-dupes in display). Let me pin it down directly.