Re: Hanging "git mv" on Windows bug report

From: Yuval Greenfield <ubershmekel@gmail.com>
Date: May 19, 2015, 17:11 UTC
Message-ID: <CANSw7KxvG29k28jp8Aq2ZeeNr2i=mWuirC6Ypno=_JXs7+TPqg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <b4a67dd0e303e009a02055e2cb8785d5@www.dscho.org>

> $ git mv tmp Abc
> fatal: bad source, source=tmp/myfile, destination=Abc/myfile

It works. Thanks.

I'd say this page at https://git-scm.com/download/win should point to https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases but sadly I don't have time to give you guys a pull request.

https://github.com/git/git-scm.com/issues/537

Cheers and thanks,

Yuval

On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 6:41 AM, Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

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> Hi Yuval,
>
> On 2015-05-18 08:50, Yuval Greenfield wrote:
>
>> Here is the command sequence that causes git to stop responding:
>>
>> mkdir mynewthing
>> cd mynewthing
>> git init
>> mkdir abc
>> touch abc/myfile
>> git add abc/myfile
>> git commit -a -m "whatever"
>> git mv abc tmp
>> git mv tmp Abc
>>
>> I wanted to change the case of a committed folder. Since windows is
>> case insensitive that's a bit harder. Perhaps with this version it's
>> impossible?
>>
>> Here's my git bash banner - "Welcome to Git (version
>> 1.9.5-preview20141217)". I'm on Windows 8.1 Pro.
>
> I just tried this with Git for Windows 2.4.1.1 (developers' preview) from https://git-for-windows.github.io/ and it did not hang here (currently on a Windows 7 box). Could you try that and see whether it works for you?
>
> Ciao,
> Johannes