Eric Sunshine [off-list ref] writes:
... A
follow-up series [2] fixes both directory_exists_in_index() and
directory_exists_in_index_icase() to be more liberal in what they
accept, relieving the caller of the burden. By the time that series
was posted, however, Junio and Peff had decided that a fix at a more
fundamental level would be better (a conclusion with which I agree,
Thanks for a summary; the last "would be better" is a qualified one,
though.
My understanding is that we agreed that it would be better *if* we
can fix it at a more fundamental level. I looked at the codepaths
involved just enough to make that off the cuff suggestion and no
deeper than that, and I suspect neither did Peff.
If any of us looked at the problem deep enough, we may realize that
it would affect too many things, and $gmane/232833/focus=232835
(your second round) may turn out to be a better solution. I think
none of us know yet.