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Re: windows git problem

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Lluis <luis@tandvsolns.co.uk>
Date
Sep 12, 2011, 18:31 UTC
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Exactly!

so the next time someone (in windows) does a commit, they remove the file or the folder contents!

On 12/09/11 19:05, Michael Witten wrote:
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> On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 17:35, luis<luis@tandvsolns.co.uk>  wrote:
>> However when I checked out the project under windows (either clone or pull)
>> one or the other would disappear and it would be staged as removed.
>>
>> The surprising bit for me was not so much that windows could not cope with
>> the case sensitivity, but that git would stage the changes!
> It would be recorded in the index as a change ready to be committed
> (as though `git rm' had been used)?
>
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