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Re: git filter-branch can "forget" directories on case insensitive filesystems

From
Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Date
Jan 25, 2011, 21:56 UTC
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<201101252256.03644.j6t@kdbg.org>
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On Dienstag, 25. Januar 2011, Simeon Maxein wrote:
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> In my opinion this is a quite serious issue, because files are lost
> without any indication to the user. As of git 1.7.3.1 (tested on
> Windows/NTFS with msysGit this time), the problem still exists. Please
> give it a look. Fullquote of the problem description / steps to
> reproduce follows.
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> > mkdir testdir
> > echo 'abc' >testdir/testfile
> > git add testdir
> > git commit -m foo
> > git rm -r testdir
> > mkdir testDir
> > echo 'abc' >testDir/testfile
> > git add testDir
> > git commit -m bar

Please retry with current release condidate of 1.7.4; it has some core.ignorecase improvements w.r.t. directories. It could well be that your problem is fixed.

-- Hannes
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