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From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Does changing filename case breaks git's rename heuristic?
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 11:06:32 +0530
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Hi Dan,

Dan Loewenherz writes:
> I may be mistaking a design decision as a bug, but I wanted to throw
> this out to the list to make sure. I think that re-enacting it will b=
e
> the best way to explain it.
>=20
> $ mkdir test
> $ cd test
> $ git init
> $ cat > readme
> This is a test file.
> ^D
> $=A0git commit -am "first commit"
> [master (root-commit) fae0d05] first commit
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>=20
> For personal reasons, I now want readme to be uppercase.
>=20
> $ mv readme README
> $ cat > README
> This is the revised README.
> $ git status -sb
> ## master
>  M readme
[...]

Thanks for taking the time to explain! Unfortunately, I'm not able to
reproduce this. Which version of Git are you using, and which platform
are you on?

-- Ram