Fair enough, thank you. I’m going to take a look at the previous threads. I’d also be keen to help working on those issues.
> On 11 Mar 2016, at 9:41 AM, Jeff King <p...@peff.net> wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 05:30:00AM +1100, Marcus Kida wrote: > >> thank you for the feedback. >> I will fix this, test it and send a patch. > > Unfortunately, I think this issue is a little more complicated. > > There's some prior discussion in > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/284022 > > and > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/276456/focus=276506 > > The latter, in particular, shows a case where this approach will do the > wrong thing. The fundamental issue is that refs are potentially stored > in _two_ places: the filesystem, and the packed-refs file. And the > latter is always case-sensitive, while the former sometimes is and > sometimes isn't. But because the storage all happens behind the scenes, > the user has no way of reliably disambiguating (e.g., does "foo" refer > to your checked-out "FOO", or are you intentionally trying to delete an > extraneous "FOO" that ended up in the packed-refs file?). > > -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
