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Re: Trouble with case insensitive filesystem

From
Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date
May 15, 2013, 13:32 UTC
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Am 5/15/2013 10:40, schrieb Luc Bourhis:
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> I work on a case insensitive filesystem and I have core.ignorecase set to true. 
> ...
> So I thought it was a job for git filter-branch, ...
> 
> However because of those two blobs, I have:
> 
> ~> git status
> #	modified:   .../fourCircles.py
> 
> and git filter-branch therefore refuses to run.

Make a commit that has neither file, run git filter-branch, then throw away the commit with git reset --hard HEAD~.

-- Hannes
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