Background I have a project of a Drupal site in a GIT repo. I inherited this project and noticed that the repo itself is much bigger than it should be. As this is GIT repo is part of the deployment, I was asked by the hosting company to do something about it. The problem My […]

I’m getting a File renaming caused colliding pathnames! error from git filter-repo --path-rename (path names hidden due to closed source/confidentiality):

I’m trying to add a file to an empty git commit using git repo-filter by following the git-repo-filter insert-beginning example as referenced in an answer to How to [use] git filter-repo to add [a] file to every commit?. But it doesn’t seem to work for me. Here what I’m doing:

I’m trying to add a file to an empty git commit using git repo-filter by following the git-repo-filter insert-beginning example as referenced in an answer to How to [use] git filter-repo to add [a] file to every commit?. But it’s doesn’t seem to work for me. Here what I’m doing: