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Re: folder naming bug?

From
Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Date
Feb 3, 2015, 08:40 UTC
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<54D0897D.4050101@web.de>
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<26FB4384-1027-436F-84C5-91C6CC4D27EA@sparkstart.io>
On 02/03/2015 07:23 AM, Kevin Coleman wrote:
> Awesome reply! That makes sense.  So basically if I accidentally capitalize a folder name and commit it, I need to be very careful when I correct it.  Definitely ran into this problem with my repo and ‘lost’ a few commits before I noticed something was off.
>
> -Kevin Coleman
(Please no top-posting)

According to my experience setting core.ignorecase false may cause the user to loose commits.

Can you reproduce the problem ? with core.ignorecase false (Which is wrong) with core.ignorecase true (You shouldn't loose anything)

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