Hi, I think I found a problem when you move a file into a directory of the same name. Here's what I did. In a repository I created a directory with a file in it. Commit it. Then I move the file into a tmp name, make a directory with that name, and move it into the directory. git-mv dir/foo dir/foo.bin mkdir dir/foo git-mv dir/foo.bin dir/foo/foo.bin Then in another branch I make a completely unrelated change. I create a file in another directory. If I try to merge in the changes from the other branch or if the other branch tries to merge in these changes I get this error: dir/foo/foo.bin: unmerged (257cc5642cb1a054f08cc83f2d943e56fd3ebe99) fatal: git-write-tree: error building trees Merge with strategy recursive failed. This is the script I've been using #!/bin/bash # # Make sure it's all clean rm -rf git-repo mkdir git-repo pushd git-repo git-init mkdir dir git-add dir pushd dir echo foo > foo git-add foo popd git-commit -a -m "one" popd # Developer A moves file into dir of same name pushd git-repo git-checkout -b branch-a git-mv dir/foo dir/foo.bin mkdir dir/foo git-mv dir/foo.bin dir/foo/foo.bin git-commit -a -m "File renamed" git-checkout master popd # Developer B makes completely unrelated changes. pushd git-repo git-checkout -b branch-b echo baz > foo.txt echo bar > bar.txt git-add bar.txt git-add foo.txt git-commit -a -m "unrelated changes" git-checkout master popd # Developer A wants to merge changes from B pushd git-repo #git-merge branch-a echo #git-merge branch-b #popd - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html