I hit exactly the same errors running git on Mac OS X.  Eventually, I
figured out that the problem is that those files have capital letters in
their names; I think at some point there was a kernel commit that
changed them to lower case.  However, the Mac filesystem is case-
insensitive by default, and git gets confused.  I formatted an external
disk drive with the HFS+ filesystem with the case-sentivity switched
*ON*, and the problem went away.

So perhaps your git tree passed through a case-insensitive filesystem at
some point (e.g. FAT32 USB drive) and that is what really caused the
problem.

Anyway, I think this is not a bug in git, although it could be argued
that it is a missing feature.

73 de W1CMC

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