diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/treewalk/filter/PathFilterGroup.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/treewalk/filter/PathFilterGroup.java
index d4b0555cd..51761a812 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/treewalk/filter/PathFilterGroup.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/treewalk/filter/PathFilterGroup.java
@@ -177,73 +177,33 @@ public class PathFilterGroup {
 	}
 
 	static class Group extends TreeFilter {
-		private static int pathPrefixSortCompare(byte[] p1, byte[] p2,
-				boolean justMatch) {
-			int ci = 0;
-			while (ci < p1.length && ci < p2.length) {
-				int c1 = p1[ci];
-				int c2 = p2[ci];
-				if (c1 == '/')
-					c1 = 0;
-				if (c2 == '/')
-					c2 = 0;
-				int cmp = c1 - c2;
-				if (cmp != 0)
-					return cmp;
-				++ci;
-			}
-			if (ci < p1.length) {
-				int c1 = p1[ci];
-				if (c1 == '/')
-					if (justMatch)
-						return 0;
-				return 1;
-			}
-			if (ci < p2.length) {
-				int c2 = p2[ci];
-				if (c2 == '/')
-					return 0;
-				return -1;
-			}
-			return 0;
-		}
-
-		private static final Comparator<PathFilter> PATH_PREFIX_SORT = new Comparator<PathFilter>() {
+		private static final Comparator<PathFilter> PATH_SORT = new Comparator<PathFilter>() {
 			public int compare(final PathFilter o1, final PathFilter o2) {
-				return pathPrefixSortCompare(o1.pathRaw, o2.pathRaw, false);
+				return o1.pathStr.compareTo(o2.pathStr);
 			}
-
 		};
 
 		private final PathFilter[] paths;
 
 		private Group(final PathFilter[] p) {
 			paths = p;
-			Arrays.sort(paths, PATH_PREFIX_SORT);
+			Arrays.sort(paths, PATH_SORT);
 		}
 
 		@Override
 		public boolean include(final TreeWalk walker) {
-			final byte[] rawPath = walker.getRawPath();
-			Comparator comparator = new Comparator<Object>() {
-				public int compare(Object pf, Object raw) {
-					PathFilter pathFilter = (PathFilter) pf;
-					int ret = -pathPrefixSortCompare(walker.getRawPath(),
-							pathFilter.pathRaw, true);
-					return ret;
-				}
-			};
-
-			Object[] pathsObject = paths;
-			Object rawObject = rawPath;
-			@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
-			int position = Arrays.binarySearch(pathsObject, rawObject,
-					comparator);
-			if (position >= 0)
-				return true;
-			if (position == -paths.length - 1)
-				throw StopWalkException.INSTANCE;
-			return false;
+			final int n = paths.length;
+			for (int i = 0;;) {
+				final byte[] r = paths[i].pathRaw;
+				final int cmp = walker.isPathPrefix(r, r.length);
+				if (cmp == 0)
+					return true;
+				if (++i < n)
+					continue;
+				if (cmp > 0)
+					throw StopWalkException.INSTANCE;
+				return false;
+			}
 		}
 
 		@Override