On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 1:14 PM, Reuben Hawkins <reuben...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Most case-insensitive filesystems are case-preserving. In these
> filesystems (such as HFS+ on OS X) you can name a file Filename.txt,
> then rename the file to FileName.txt. That file will be accessible
> by both filenames, but the case is otherwise honored. We don't want
> to have git ignore case on these case-preserving filesystem
> implementations.
Actually, we want to ignore case on ANY case-insensitive file system whether
it is a case-preserving or not.
Let's suppose we have a central repository where Filename.txt is renamed
as FileName.txt. Now a user pulls changes from that repository on Windows.
With core.ignorecase = true, everything works perfectly:
$ git pull
remote: Counting objects: 3, done.
remote: Total 2 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
Unpacking objects: 100% (2/2), done.
>From z:/shared/test2/
3d885e6..ce5deef master -> origin/master
Updating 3d885e6..ce5deef
Fast-forward
Filename.txt => FileName.txt | 0
1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
rename Filename.txt => FileName.txt (100%)
$ ls
FileName.txt
Now, if you try to do the same thing with core.ignorecase = false,
you get this:
$ git pull
remote: Counting objects: 3, done.
remote: Total 2 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
Unpacking objects: 100% (2/2), done.
>From z:/shared/test2/
3d885e6..ce5deef master -> origin/master
Updating 3d885e6..ce5deef
error: The following untracked working tree files would be overwritten by merge:
FileName.txt
Please move or remove them before you can merge.
Aborting
I have tested this with git version 1.8.3.msysgit.0, but I don't think
it is any different with the latest version.
> This fixes a problem where if you import an hg repository, using
> git-remote-hg,
Perhaps, it fixes that case, but it breaks a far more common case.
So I believe that git-remote-hg should be corrected and not init-db.c
Dmitry
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