Re: Does changing filename case breaks git's rename heuristic?

From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 27, 2010, 05:36 UTC
Message-ID: <20100827053629.GC22527@kytes>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinxvj85Jzb-ykK0=MmRHkz8aQzmVxexC8H+Xgno@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Dan,

Dan Loewenherz writes:

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> I may be mistaking a design decision as a bug, but I wanted to throw
> this out to the list to make sure. I think that re-enacting it will be
> the best way to explain it.
> 
> $ mkdir test
> $ cd test
> $ git init
> $ cat > readme
> This is a test file.
> ^D
> $ git commit -am "first commit"
> [master (root-commit) fae0d05] first commit
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> For personal reasons, I now want readme to be uppercase.
> 
> $ mv readme README
> $ cat > README
> This is the revised README.
> $ git status -sb
> ## master
>  M readme

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Thanks for taking the time to explain! Unfortunately, I'm not able to reproduce this. Which version of Git are you using, and which platform are you on?

-- Ram