From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 21:56:03 GMT
Subject: Re: git filter-branch can "forget" directories on case insensitive filesystems
Message-ID: <201101252256.03644.j6t@kdbg.org>
In-Reply-To: <4D3F38E9.9060902@googlemail.com>

On Dienstag, 25. Januar 2011, Simeon Maxein wrote:
> 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.

> > 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