On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 11:46 PM, Tim Uckun <timuckun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > A transcript... > > git init > git add . > /dev/nul > git commit -m 'initial import' ...okay... > *********Try to rename a directory WTF?: Git thinks any directory with a > .git folder is empty and refuses to rename the directory. Well, why do other folders contain .git directories? Are they *separate* git repositories? If so, git doesn't know what to do with them and leaves them alone. (Well, in fact it treats them as submodules.) All your other weird problems seem to come from this, as far as I can tell. If not, it would be helpful if you could give *complete* reproduction steps for your problem. Have fun, Avery -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html