diff --git a/src/applications/owners/storage/PhabricatorOwnersPath.php b/src/applications/owners/storage/PhabricatorOwnersPath.php
--- a/src/applications/owners/storage/PhabricatorOwnersPath.php
+++ b/src/applications/owners/storage/PhabricatorOwnersPath.php
@@ -79,15 +79,27 @@
   public static function getSetFromTransactionValue(array $v) {
     $set = array();
     foreach ($v as $ref) {
-      $set[$ref['repositoryPHID']][$ref['path']][$ref['excluded']] = true;
+      $key = self::getScalarKeyForRef($ref);
+      $set[$key] = true;
     }
     return $set;
   }
 
   public static function isRefInSet(array $ref, array $set) {
-    return isset($set[$ref['repositoryPHID']][$ref['path']][$ref['excluded']]);
+    $key = self::getScalarKeyForRef($ref);
+    return isset($set[$key]);
   }
 
+  private static function getScalarKeyForRef(array $ref) {
+    return sprintf(
+      'repository=%s path=%s display=%s excluded=%d',
+      $ref['repositoryPHID'],
+      $ref['path'],
+      $ref['display'],
+      $ref['excluded']);
+  }
+
+
   /**
    * Get the number of directory matches between this path specification and
    * some real path.
diff --git a/src/applications/owners/xaction/PhabricatorOwnersPackagePathsTransaction.php b/src/applications/owners/xaction/PhabricatorOwnersPackagePathsTransaction.php
--- a/src/applications/owners/xaction/PhabricatorOwnersPackagePathsTransaction.php
+++ b/src/applications/owners/xaction/PhabricatorOwnersPackagePathsTransaction.php
@@ -12,12 +12,33 @@
 
   public function generateNewValue($object, $value) {
     $new = $value;
+
     foreach ($new as $key => $info) {
-      $new[$key]['excluded'] = (int)idx($info, 'excluded');
+      $info['excluded'] = (int)idx($info, 'excluded');
+
+      // The input has one "path" key with the display path.
+      // Move it to "display", then normalize the value in "path".
+
+      $display_path = $info['path'];
+      $raw_path = rtrim($display_path, '/').'/';
+
+      $info['path'] = $raw_path;
+      $info['display'] = $display_path;
+
+      $new[$key] = $info;
     }
+
     return $new;
   }
 
+  public function getTransactionHasEffect($object, $old, $new) {
+    list($add, $rem) = PhabricatorOwnersPath::getTransactionValueChanges(
+      $old,
+      $new);
+
+    return ($add || $rem);
+  }
+
   public function validateTransactions($object, array $xactions) {
     $errors = array();
 
@@ -110,8 +131,8 @@
     $display_map = array();
     $seen_map = array();
     foreach ($new as $key => $spec) {
-      $display_path = $spec['path'];
-      $raw_path = rtrim($display_path, '/').'/';
+      $raw_path = $spec['path'];
+      $display_path = $spec['display'];
 
       // If the user entered two paths in the same repository which normalize
       // to the same value (like "src/main.c" and "src/main.c/"), discard the
@@ -193,11 +214,18 @@
     $rowc = array();
     foreach ($rows as $key => $row) {
       $rowc[] = $row['class'];
+
+      if (array_key_exists('display', $row)) {
+        $display_path = $row['display'];
+      } else {
+        $display_path = $row['path'];
+      }
+
       $rows[$key] = array(
         $row['change'],
         $row['excluded'] ? pht('Exclude') : pht('Include'),
         $this->renderHandle($row['repositoryPHID']),
-        $row['path'],
+        $display_path,
       );
     }