Re: fast-import should not care about core.ignorecase

2014-12-09 Thread Junio C Hamano
Joshua Jensen jjen...@workspacewhiz.com writes: Jonathan Nieder wrote on 12/8/2014 6:31 PM: Joshua Jensen wrote: I think it has been discussed before, but maybe Git needs a core.casefold in addition to core.ignorecase.) Would it work for --casefold to be a commandline flag to fast-import,

fast-import should not care about core.ignorecase

2014-12-08 Thread Mike Hommey
Hi, As you now know, I'm working on a mercurial remote helper for git. As such, it uses fast-import. In the mercurial history of mozilla-central, there have been various renames of files with only case changes, and it so happens that my remote helper blows things up on case insensitive file

Re: fast-import should not care about core.ignorecase

2014-12-08 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 09:12:11AM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote: Hi, As you now know, I'm working on a mercurial remote helper for git. As such, it uses fast-import. In the mercurial history of mozilla-central, there have been various renames of files with only case changes, and it so happens

Re: fast-import should not care about core.ignorecase

2014-12-08 Thread Joshua Jensen
Mike Hommey wrote on 12/8/2014 5:12 PM: While it makes sense for checkouts and local commits, it doesn't make sense to me that using git fast-import with the same import script would have a different behavior depending on whether the file system is case-sensitive or not. I have used fast-import

Re: fast-import should not care about core.ignorecase

2014-12-08 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Joshua Jensen wrote: I think it has been discussed before, but maybe Git needs a core.casefold in addition to core.ignorecase.) Would it work for --casefold to be a commandline flag to fast-import, instead of a global option affecting multiple Git commands? Curious, Jonathan -- To unsubscribe

Re: fast-import should not care about core.ignorecase

2014-12-08 Thread Joshua Jensen
Jonathan Nieder wrote on 12/8/2014 6:31 PM: Joshua Jensen wrote: I think it has been discussed before, but maybe Git needs a core.casefold in addition to core.ignorecase.) Would it work for --casefold to be a commandline flag to fast-import, instead of a global option affecting multiple Git