Re: [git-for-windows] Case insensitive branch names

On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 6:01 PM, Philip Oakley [off-list ref] wrote:

On the Git User's list, Diego J. reported that:

'When I "checkout" a branch using different Upper Case/Lower Case than the
original, the branch doesn't show in "git branch [--list]"' [1]

While case sensitivity for filenames is a common issue on Windows and the
like, I haven't seen any discussion regarding ref name sensitivity - any
pointers to past discussions?

Multiple ref backend [1] should solve this.It's supposed to help
handle a huge number refs. But a side effect from not using file
system for refs is we can handle ref case-sensitivity much easier. And
I believe David had that in mind he chose lmdb (because of Mac, which
shares the same problem with Windows)

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/281925
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Duy