Ok, thanks for the update Steffen.

On 17/04/2008, Steffen Prohaska <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> On Apr 17, 2008, at 10:49 AM, Lee Henson wrote:
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>  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
>

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