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

PJ Weisberg [off-list ref] writes:

On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

underlying system calls like open("foo") will *not* magically start
returning a file descriptor opened for "FOO" if your filesystem is not
case insensitive.

No, but magic_open("foo") might, if someone had put forth the effort
to write a function called magic_open.

Exactly.

That is why we avoid describing what happens when you set it on a case
sensitive filesystem, to leave the door open for such a cleverness.

It may still be a mistake in the manual that we did not explicitly say
that setting core.ignorecase on a case sensitive system will give you an
undefined behaviour.