Re: git and file name case on cygwin

Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] writes:

On Sat, 3 Feb 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

quoted

Are there plans to "fix" the confusion by renaming them to
reduce chances of name clashes on such suboptimal filesystems?

I don't think so. Nobody really does development on such broken 
filesystems, and I kind of have this nagging suspicion that Niklas noticed 
just because he wanted to test git, not because he really wanted to do 
Linux development under Windows ;)

That said, it might not be horrible to do. Doing

	git ls-files | sort -f | uniq -ic | grep -v ' 1 '

shows that we only have 19 names so afflicted, and they're all in 
netfilter. Maybe the netfilter people could be convinced not to do it.

But really, do we actually expect anybody to really *care*?

Not really, I was just fishing for an ammunition to use in a
different thread, concerning another filesystem whose readdir()
returns something different from what the user fed creat() to
create the file.