On Apr 17, 2008, at 10:49 AM, Lee Henson wrote:
Is there any special regard given to windows case-insensitive
filesystem?
Not yet.
I ask because we've just tripped up over a commit that
merely capitalized a folder name that was previously lower case,
resulting in two copies of the folder in git. That leads to endless
problems with deleted files triggering "file missing" or "file
untracked" messages from git status.
Committing a remove of the folder and readding it has fixed the issue,
but obviously it would be good if that situation couldn't occur again.
I've googled around a bit and found some mention and patches for
core.ignorecase, but setting that true doesn't appear to make any
difference. I'm using the latest installer (the april build), if that
helps.
The patches are not included in 1.5.5. The patch series by Linus
(tip is 1102952b4) is on Junio's next branch, so I guess it will
become available in Git 1.5.6.
Steffen
