Re: fast-import should not care about core.ignorecase

Jonathan Nieder wrote on 12/8/2014 6:31 PM:

Joshua Jensen wrote:

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I think it has been discussed before, but maybe Git needs a
core.casefold in addition to core.ignorecase.)

Would it work for --casefold to be a commandline flag to fast-import,
instead of a global option affecting multiple Git commands?

Given that core.ignorecase=true means to fold filename case in quite a number of places within Git right now, I would expect the same behavior within a repository where fast-import is being run against core.ignorecase=true.

So, I don't know what core.ignorecase should mean, but I'm pretty sure I know what core.foldcase should mean.

Would --casefold work?  Sure, but it would be a special case against the existing core.ignorecase behavior that I don't think makes much sense.

Josh