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Re: Hanging "git mv" on Windows bug report

From
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
May 19, 2015, 13:41 UTC
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Hi Yuval,
On 2015-05-18 08:50, Yuval Greenfield wrote:
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> 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

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