From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
To: smaxein@googlemail.com
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git filter-branch can "forget" directories on case insensitive filesystems
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:56:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201101252256.03644.j6t@kdbg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D3F38E9.9060902@googlemail.com>
On Dienstag, 25. Januar 2011, Simeon Maxein wrote:
> In my opinion this is a quite serious issue, because files are lost
> without any indication to the user. As of git 1.7.3.1 (tested on
> Windows/NTFS with msysGit this time), the problem still exists. Please
> give it a look. Fullquote of the problem description / steps to
> reproduce follows.
> > mkdir testdir
> > echo 'abc' >testdir/testfile
> > git add testdir
> > git commit -m foo
> > git rm -r testdir
> > mkdir testDir
> > echo 'abc' >testDir/testfile
> > git add testDir
> > git commit -m bar
Please retry with current release condidate of 1.7.4; it has some
core.ignorecase improvements w.r.t. directories. It could well be that your
problem is fixed.
-- Hannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-25 21:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-03 16:36 git filter-branch can "forget" directories on case insensitive filesystems Simeon Maxein
2011-01-25 20:56 ` Simeon Maxein
2011-01-25 21:56 ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
2011-01-25 23:26 ` Simeon Maxein
2011-01-25 23:31 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2011-01-26 0:24 ` Simeon Maxein
2011-01-26 0:58 ` Erik Faye-Lund
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