Re: git filter-branch can "forget" directories on case insensitive filesystems

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On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 12:26 AM, Simeon Maxein <smaxein@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Am 25.01.2011 22:56, schrieb Johannes Sixt:
>> On Dienstag, 25. Januar 2011, Simeon Maxein wrote:
>>> In my opinion this is a quite serious issue, because files are lost
>>> without any indication to the user. As of git 1.7.3.1 (tested on
>>> Windows/NTFS with msysGit this time), the problem still exists. Please
>>> give it a look. Fullquote of the problem description / steps to
>>> reproduce follows.
>>>> mkdir testdir
>>>> echo 'abc' >testdir/testfile
>>>> git add testdir
>>>> git commit -m foo
>>>> git rm -r testdir
>>>> mkdir testDir
>>>> echo 'abc' >testDir/testfile
>>>> git add testDir
>>>> git commit -m bar
>> Please retry with current release condidate of 1.7.4; it has some
>> core.ignorecase improvements w.r.t. directories. It could well be that your
>> problem is fixed.
>>
>> -- Hannes
> Thanks for the suggestion. The directory doesn't vanish anymore with
> 1.7.4, so a big Thank You to the developers for improving this. When
> rewriting the second commit ls still prints testdir as lowercase though.
> More of a nitpick, but it would still be neat to have it right.
>

This part is correct behavior  - git's internal representation is case
sensitive. So git's record of the file is still 'testdir', even i
you've deleted it and created a new called 'testDir'.
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