Re: Hanging "git mv" on Windows bug report
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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
- Date
- May 19, 2015, 13:41 UTC
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- <b4a67dd0e303e009a02055e2cb8785d5@www.dscho.org>
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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