Re: [PATCH] Demonstrate failure of 'core.ignorecase = true'

On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 11:44:42AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

I wanted it to tell *what* happens when core.ignorecase is set.  In other
words, I wanted the description to say that the logic employed is to work
around what case-insensitive filesystems do.  Case sensitive filesystems
obviously do not do what case-insensitive ones do (like reporting a
"Makefile" exists when only "makefile" exists), so I hoped that it was
clear enough that the additional logic would not be suitable there.

Ah. I see now why you made the change you did. But if I missed it,
perhaps it was too subtle (of course, I found the other one perfectly
adequate, so...).

I guess we really need to make the description foolproof then.

                   ... exists on them is "makefile". By setting this
	variable to `true`, Git employs logic to work around them.
        Setting this to `true` on a case insensitive filesystem does
	not make any sense, because it would not magically make your
	system to treat your filesystem case insensitively.

I'm OK with that (modulo s/insensitive/sensitive/ on the third line).
It may be overly explicit, but I would rather err on that side.

-Peff