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[BUG] git-filter-branch and filename case changes on insensitive file systems

From
Jonathan del Strother <maillist@steelskies.com>
Date
Oct 10, 2007, 09:40 UTC
Message-ID
<80A15F58-5A53-419B-9E22-E967CD590A12@steelskies.com>

My repo has a change where a directory named Src was renamed to src. When I run "git filter-branch HEAD", my repo history is rewritten so it appears that the Src directory was simply deleted. I'm using case insensitive HFS+. Fortunately, I can work around this by using -d to work off a case sensitive HFS+ volume - "git filter-branch -d /Volumes/CaseSensitive/ test HEAD" correctly changes nothing.

Anyone know why this happens?
Jon
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