From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "Torsten Bögershausen" <tboegi@web.de>,
kusmabite@gmail.com, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Allow git mv FileA fILEa on case ignore file systems
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 08:16:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DA3EE2C.2010702@viscovery.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vd3ksybfr.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
Am 4/11/2011 18:55, schrieb Junio C Hamano:
> Yeah, I forgot about the primary thing we are trying to do in this
> discussion. Sorry about that. My thinking stopped at 'if we rename "A"
> to "a in the index, that is sufficient. We already know that we can still
> open("A") because the filesystem is case insensitive.'
>
> In fact, we want both the index entry "A" renamed to "a" _and_ also we
> want to see next "/bin/ls" to show "a", not "A". For the latter, we do
> want to run rename(2) on them.
I wonder why we need this at all. You can always break this into two
operations:
git mv A a1
git mv a1 a
Is 'git mv A a' on a case-insensitive filesystem such an every-day
operation that we have to provide special support for it in git?
-- Hannes
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-12 6:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-19 14:28 [PATCH v2] Allow git mv FileA fILEa on case ignore file systems Torsten Bögershausen
2011-03-19 18:20 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2011-03-19 19:30 ` Piotr Krukowiecki
2011-03-20 5:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-04-10 5:48 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2011-04-11 16:55 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-04-11 20:05 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2011-04-12 6:16 ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
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