Re: Unexpected ignorecase=false behavior on Windows

[Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>]

Am 22.06.2018 um 14:04 schrieb Marc Strapetz:
> On Windows, when creating following repository:
> 
> $ git init
> $ echo "1" > file.txt
> $ git add .
> $ git commit -m "initial import"
> $ ren file.txt File.txt
> $ git config core.ignorecase false

This is a user error. core.ignorecase is *not* an instruction as in 
"hey, Git, do not ignore the case of file names". It is better regarded 
as an internal value, with which Git remembers how it should treat the 
names of files that it receives when it traverses the directories on the 
disk.

Git could probe the file system capabilities each time it runs. But that 
would be wasteful. Hence, this probe happens only once when the 
repository is initialized, and the result is recorded in this 
configuration value. You should not change it.

> Status results are:
> 
> $ git status --porcelain
> ?? File.txt
> 
> As on Unix, I would expect to see:
> 
> $ git status --porcelain
>   D file.txt
> ?? File.txt
> 
> Is the Windows behavior intended? I'm asking, because e.g. JGit will 
> report missing files, too, and I'm wondering what would be the correct 
> way to resolve this discrepancy? (JGit does not have 
> "ignorecase=true"-support at all, btw).

Then I don't think there is a way to remove the discrepancy.

-- Hannes