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Re: Status shows untracked directory without any untracked file in it

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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Apr 6, 2012, 06:14 UTC
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On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 10:19:00PM -0700, Alexander Kostikov wrote:
> How that is possible? Is it a bug?

Maybe. What git version and what platform are you on? There was a bug in versions of git earlier than v1.7.8 that showed the symptom you describe on case-insensitive filesystems. It was fixed by commit 2548183, which contains more details.

-Peff
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