On Thu, Jan 07, 2021 at 11:21:56AM -0500, Philippe Blain wrote: > Hi Torsten, [snip] > > change to: > FILENAME=file > > > > > rm -rf $DIR && > > mkdir $DIR && > > cd $DIR && > > $GIT init && > > mkdir $DIRNAME && > > add: > cd $DIRNAME && > > > echo "Initial" >$FILENAME && [] That did the trick, the test case is now reproducible here. I am looking into the stuff, somewhere inside the pathspec machinery, determinating a "prefix" and using xgetcwd we need a precompose_string. But only if core.precomposeunicode is true. And I am still digging. It seems as if there could be a patch in a couple of days, but no promises.