Re: [PATCH] fast-import: add options to enable/disable case folding

On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 11:44:00AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

So perhaps we should rip the case folding out altogether instead?
The entry for the change in the Release Notes may say:

 * "git fast-import" incorrectly case-folded the paths recorded in
   the history when core.ignorease is set (i.e. the repository's
   working tree is incapable of expressing paths that differ only in
   their cases); this old bug was reported in 2012 and was finally
   corrected.

or something like that?

Is anything else then git-p4 known to rely on case folding? If not, I
guess that's a reasonable plan. We could even add an option to
fast-import that would allow to turn case folding back on, and make
git-p4 use it, so that its expectations are fulfilled. Although at some
point, it could (should?) do case folding itself(?)

Mike