On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 1:45 PM Marc Strapetz <marc.strap...@syntevo.com> wrote: > > On 22.06.2018 19:36, Johannes Sixt wrote: > > Am 22.06.2018 um 14:04 schrieb Marc Strapetz: > >> On Windows, when creating following repository: > >> > >> $ git init > >> $ echo "1" > file.txt > >> $ git add . > >> $ git commit -m "initial import" > >> $ ren file.txt File.txt > >> $ git config core.ignorecase false > > > > This is a user error. core.ignorecase is *not* an instruction as in > > "hey, Git, do not ignore the case of file names". It is better regarded > > as an internal value, with which Git remembers how it should treat the > > names of files that it receives when it traverses the directories on the > > disk. > > > > Git could probe the file system capabilities each time it runs. But that > > would be wasteful. Hence, this probe happens only once when the > > repository is initialized, and the result is recorded in this > > configuration value. You should not change it. > > Sorry, it looks like my example was misleading. I'm actually questioning > current behavior in case of Windows repositories with core.ignorecase > initialized to false, like in following setup: > > $ git init > $ git config core.ignorecase false > > The repository is now set up to be case-sensitive on Windows. From this > point on, core.ignorecase won't change anymore and the repository will > be filled:
I don't think Hannes's point was _when_ you changed it; it was that you changed it _at all_. Git on Windows is not designed to run with anything other than core.ignoreCase=true, and attempting to do so will cause unexpected behavior. In other words, it's not a behavior toggle so user's can request the functionality to work one way or the other; it's an implementation detail that `git init` and `git clone` set when a repository is created purely so they don't have to probe the file system each time you run a `git` command. NTFS is case-preserving-but-case-insensitive by default[1]. So long as that's the case, the only mode for running Git on Windows is core.ignoreCase=true. Hopefully this clarifies things! Bryan [1] Windows 10 1803 introduced the ability to set a folder as case-sensitive[2], but, since it's not inherited automatically by subdirectories, it still doesn't work well for Git. [2] https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2018/02/28/per-directory-case-sensitivity-and-wsl/ > > $ echo "1" > file.txt > $ git add . > $ git commit -m "initial import" > $ ren file.txt File.txt > > Still, status results are: > > $ git status --porcelain > ?? File.txt > > With the same setup sequence on Unix, it's: > > $ git status --porcelain > D file.txt > ?? File.txt > > Is this difference, which is depending on the platform, intended? Why > not report missing file.txt as well? > > The drawback of the current behavior is that a subsequent "git add ." > will result in two file names in the .git/index which are only differing > in case. This will break the repository on Windows, because only one of > both files can be checked out in the working tree. Also, it makes > case-only renames harder to be performed. > > -Marc
