On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 1:16 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I think the message you are referring to is a tangent that discusses
> how it was done in the old world, with issues that come from the
> fact that with such an approach the paths are first removed from the
> index and then added afresh to the index, which can lose cases and
> executable bits when working on a filesystem that does not retain
> enough information.
>
> The way in the new world is to use "add --renormalize" which was
> added at 9472935d ("add: introduce "--renormalize"", 2017-11-16), I
> think.
Oh I didn't realize someone actually did it. If so, that's awesome.
Thanks Junio!
