On 12.10.16 18:05, David Brown wrote: > Howdy git gurus, > > I have the dubious distinction of working with a remote repo (master) that has a class loader run-time error when cloned, built and executed. > > The reason for the runtime issue is a directory hierarchical path has to directories (folders) with the same name spelling but one of the directories is camel-cased. The package names are the same. > > The compiler doesn't care but the run-time class loader has an issue with the 2 'same like named' classes. > > How to remove the offending directories and files at the locally cloned repo but not push 'deleted' directories and files back to origin/master the remote repo? > > Please advise. > > Regards. This email did not resolve from here: David Brown <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> It is somewhat unclear, which issue the class loader has. What does git ls-files | grep -i "sameNameBitDifferent" say ? What do you mean with "How to remove the offending directories" ? Just run rm -rf "offending directories" ? Or, may be git mv dir1 NewDir1 If you don't want to push, you don't have to, or what do I miss ?