On Fri, Feb 01, 2019 at 10:02:50AM +0200, Angelo Melonas wrote: > Hi Torsten, > > Thank you so much for getting back to me. > > Unfortunately, I believe there is a misunderstanding, as I may have > explained what I found to be a possible bug incorrectly. > The file that is originally added (and then later modified) is never > renamed or moved. > As you will see below, when a user attempts to add a file, but with > the incorrect case, the Git CLI responds the same way it would if a > file was correctly added (i.e., by displaying nothing). > However, in the above case, when you enter "git status", you find that > the file was never actually added, and remains unstaged. > A possible solution to this can be a simple error message similar to > attempting to add a file with its name misspelt. > > Using your example, I have illustrated this in the text below: > > C:\Example>git init > Initialized empty Git repository in C:/Example/.git/ > > C:\Example>echo AAA > AA.txt > > C:\Example>git add AA.txt > > C:\Example>git commit -m AA.txt > [master (root-commit) d550af0] AA.txt > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) > create mode 100644 AA.txt > > C:\Example>echo BB > AA.txt > > C:\Example>git status > On branch master > Changes not staged for commit: > (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed) > (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory) > > modified: AA.txt > > no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a") > > C:\Example>git add Aa.txt > > C:\Example>git status > On branch master > Changes not staged for commit: > (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed) > (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory) > > modified: AA.txt > > no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a") > > C:\Example>git add A.txt > fatal: pathspec 'A.txt' did not match any files > > C:\Example>git add AA.txt > > C:\Example>git status > On branch master > Changes to be committed: > (use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage) > > modified: AA.txt > > I am looking forward to hearing from you again. > > Kind regards, > Angelo Melonas > Actually yes, you can call this a minor bug. Does anybody want to work on it ? May be as a first-time-Git contribution ?
