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Re: windows git problem

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Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 12, 2011, 18:05 UTC
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On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 17:35, luis <luis@tandvsolns.co.uk> wrote:
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> 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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