From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Sixt Subject: Re: git filter-branch can "forget" directories on case insensitive filesystems Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:56:03 +0100 Message-ID: <201101252256.03644.j6t@kdbg.org> References: <4D3F38E9.9060902@googlemail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: smaxein@googlemail.com X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jan 25 22:56:26 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Phqs1-0003Hp-Gg for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:56:14 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753680Ab1AYV4H (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Jan 2011 16:56:07 -0500 Received: from bsmtp2.bon.at ([213.33.87.16]:21930 "EHLO bsmtp.bon.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752255Ab1AYV4G (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Jan 2011 16:56:06 -0500 Received: from dx.sixt.local (unknown [93.83.142.38]) by bsmtp.bon.at (Postfix) with ESMTP id 819D8A7EBE; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:55:45 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by dx.sixt.local (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9DFA19F5F2; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:56:03 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 In-Reply-To: <4D3F38E9.9060902@googlemail.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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