diff --git a/src/shared/local/functions.ts b/src/shared/local/functions.ts
index 0a039c54..957146fb 100644
--- a/src/shared/local/functions.ts
+++ b/src/shared/local/functions.ts
@@ -4,15 +4,12 @@
  * Licensed under the BSD 3-Clause license.
  * For full license text, see LICENSE.txt file in the repo root or https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause
  */
-import path from 'node:path';
 import { WORKDIR, HEAD } from './localShadowRepo';
 import { FILE } from './localShadowRepo';
 
 import { StatusRow } from './types';
 
 // filenames were normalized when read from isogit
-
 export const toFilenames = (rows: StatusRow[]): string[] => rows.map((row) => row[FILE]);
 export const isDeleted = (status: StatusRow): boolean => status[WORKDIR] === 0;
 export const isAdded = (status: StatusRow): boolean => status[HEAD] === 0 && status[WORKDIR] === 2;
-export const ensureWindows = (filepath: string): string => path.win32.normalize(filepath);
diff --git a/src/shared/local/localShadowRepo.ts b/src/shared/local/localShadowRepo.ts
index fbec5640..896e49c7 100644
--- a/src/shared/local/localShadowRepo.ts
+++ b/src/shared/local/localShadowRepo.ts
@@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ export class ShadowRepo {
     if (!matchingFiles.added.size || !matchingFiles.deleted.size) return;
 
     const movedFilesMarker = Performance.mark('@salesforce/source-tracking', 'localShadowRepo.detectMovedFiles');
-    const matches = await filenameMatchesToMap(IS_WINDOWS)(this.registry)(this.projectPath)(this.gitDir)(matchingFiles);
+    const matches = await filenameMatchesToMap(this.registry)(this.projectPath)(this.gitDir)(matchingFiles);
 
     if (matches.deleteOnly.size === 0 && matches.fullMatches.size === 0) return movedFilesMarker?.stop();
 
diff --git a/src/shared/local/moveDetection.ts b/src/shared/local/moveDetection.ts
index b61cf223..9f823e98 100644
--- a/src/shared/local/moveDetection.ts
+++ b/src/shared/local/moveDetection.ts
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ import * as fs from 'graceful-fs';
 import { Performance } from '@oclif/core/performance';
 import { isDefined } from '../guards';
 import { uniqueArrayConcat } from '../functions';
-import { isDeleted, isAdded, ensureWindows, toFilenames } from './functions';
+import { isDeleted, isAdded, toFilenames } from './functions';
 import { AddAndDeleteMaps, DetectionFileInfo, DetectionFileInfoWithType, StatusRow, StringMap } from './types';
 
 const JOIN_CHAR = '#__#'; // the __ makes it unlikely to be used in metadata names
@@ -38,15 +38,12 @@ type StringMapsForMatches = {
 
 /** composed functions to simplified use by the shadowRepo class */
 export const filenameMatchesToMap =
-  (isWindows: boolean) =>
   (registry: RegistryAccess) =>
   (projectPath: string) =>
   (gitDir: string) =>
   async ({ added, deleted }: AddedAndDeletedFilenames): Promise<StringMapsForMatches> => {
-    const resolver = getResolverForFilenames(registry)(
-      // TODO: use set.union when node 22 is everywhere
-      isWindows ? uniqueArrayConcat(added, deleted).map(ensureWindows) : uniqueArrayConcat(added, deleted)
-    );
+    // TODO: use set.union when node 22 is everywhere
+    const resolver = getResolverForFilenames(registry)(uniqueArrayConcat(added, deleted));
 
     return compareHashes(
       await buildMaps(