family.py add: where another member's own gitlink sits at a case variant (Members/<P> for its row members/<P>), the refusal's remedy prints git rm -r --cached or git mv, which takes that member's gitlink away from its row #646

Goal: no remedy family.py prints un-registers a member that is in the holder.

Filed by lane openRepoShape-5 on Brett Heap's word of 2026-10-16T11:21:49Z ("#574's add remedy un-registers"), from lane 5's checklist item (d) on #459 (comment). Found by lane 5's review rv611b of #639, by probe. It is a defect in lane 5's landed #574 (62ef256b).

Lands after: #639 (#611), whose holder-validator remedy for the same state this should match.

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• (d): a member's only gitlink is at Members/<P> while its row says members/<P>. family.py add of ANOTHER member refuses, as family.py: add refuses, before the member is read and on every disk, any path under another spelling of members/, in its index, in HEAD or on disk, and names a remedy per entry that never moves the members' checkouts (#362, #363, #364) #574 rules, and its remedy prints git rm -r --cached -- Members/<P> where nothing is on disk in that spelling, or git mv -- Members/<P> <new name> where something is. Either line, typed as printed, takes that member's gitlink away from its row. Where: scripts/family.py _spellings_refusal (:2309 at 4cf5fb0) and the REMEDY_ORDER rules above Spelled (about :1950-1962); the refusal code is member-path-taken or family-members-dir-variant (:2393).

Direction: where the variant path is a case variant of an existing row's own members/<P>, print the restore #639 gives the holder's validator for #363's item 3, not a move out of the way:

• git rm -r --cached --ignore-unmatch -- Members/<P>
• git update-index --add --cacheinfo 160000,<pin>,members/<P>
• then a commit.

Brett Heap accepted that index-only form for #639 at 2026-10-16T11:21:49Z ("Accept; merge #639 after #637"), in place of the "committed git mv" of his "Refuse on every disk" ruling (2026-10-14T22:27:52Z), because git mv to the row's path fails or misplaces the gitlink in three layouts. A path that is no member's own variant keeps #574's remedies.

Mark the line → this issue on #459, and tick it there when this closes.

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