This is not a problem for our NetBeans repository so far as I don't believe we have identical file names when lowercased in the same folder.
I assume the bug you mention is still present since it's caused by the filesystem and not git in itself. Yes, I've also used a case-sensitive filesystem on OSX in the past but then for various reasons started using the default FS, which is case insensitive. It's relatively painless except for the odd issue such as this one... --emi On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 7:43 PM, Niclas Hedhman <[email protected]> wrote: > Some years ago I found out that Git had a particular nasty behavior when > changing file names where only case-sensitivity happened on > case-insensitive volumes on Mac. I have not confirmed if this remains or > has been solved. > > To recreate; > > On Linux box > 1. touch abc.txt > 2. git add abc.txt > 3. git commit -m "test" abc.txt > 4. git push > > Then do a git clone on Mac OSX > 5. git clone ... > > Back on Linux > 6. mv abc.txt Abc.txt > 7. git commit -m "test" Abc.txt > 8. git push > > Then on Mac OSX > 9. git pull // fails about can not rename as file already exist (itself). > > After being struck with it once, I have used case-sensitive journal FS on > MAC OSX. Would be great to know if someone knows for a fact that it has > been fixed (or not). Otherwise, I suggest to test it out (no Linux at my > end at the moment) > > Niclas > > On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 12:37 AM, Emilian Bold <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Yeah, I first noticed it with main-silver on macOS and I assumed it's some >> git issue on macOS. >> >> Then Chris had the same problem on Windows. >> >> Now I saw the problem with releases/ too so I looked deeper into the cause. >> >> >> În vin., 30 dec. 2016 la 18:07 Benno Markiewicz < >> [email protected]> a scris: >> >> > These seems to be some of the problems ChrisL recently had, aren't they? >> > >> > >> > >> > Den 30 dec. 2016 2:10 em skrev "Emilian Bold" <[email protected]>: >> > >> > >> > >> > > Hello, >> > >> > > >> > >> > > Because I ran the conversion on macOS and git tries clumsily to be >> > >> > > helpful I am having some file name case sensitivity problems. >> > >> > > >> > >> > > For example, html.lexer/src/org/netbeans/lib/html/lexer/HtmlLexer.java >> > >> > > is checkout out as HTMLLexer.java >> > >> > > >> > >> > > There are some other 10-20 files like this. >> > >> > > >> > >> > > Manually renaming these files fixes everything and the build runs. >> > >> > > >> > >> > > I don't believe there is any way to fix the repositories other then >> > >> > > making sure I execute >> > >> > > >> > >> > > git config core.ignorecase false >> > >> > > >> > >> > > and then re-convert everything. >> > >> > > >> > >> > > Which I will do next year. >> > >> > > >> > >> > > I have also reported this for hg-fast-export >> > >> > > https://github.com/frej/fast-export/issues/87 >> > >> > > >> > >> > > --emi >> > >> > > >> > >> > >> > > > > -- > Niclas Hedhman, Software Developer > http://zest.apache.org - New Energy for Java
