Re: [PATCH] Demonstrate failure of 'core.ignorecase = true'
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From: Jeff King <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:53:22
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 09:00:31PM +0100, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Maybe:--- 8< ---When set, case-insensitive comparisons will be used when internally comparing file names. The default is false, but when a new repository is created by git-clone[1] or git-init[1], git will probe the filesystem and set it to `true` if the filesystem is case-insensitive. On case-insensitive filesystems like FAT, NTFS and HSF+, names that differ only in capitalization, like "Makefile" and "makefile", refer to the same file. While such filesystems usually preserve the capitalization used during file creation, tools designed for such filesystems will often modify capitalization when saving files and when displaying filenames. Enabling core.ignorecase causes git to ignore case-only differences in file names. Enabling core.ignorecase on a case insensitive filesystem does not make sense, because filenames with different capitalization will still be treated as different by the filesystem.--- >8 ---
From his response, I guess Junio does not agree, but this is my favorite of the texts proposed so far. -Peff PS If we do use it, it needs s/HSF/HFS/.