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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: Trouble with case-insensitive filesystems
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 12:34:50 -0400
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On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 05:22:52PM +0200, Andreas Ericsson wrote:

> There are no areas in git to patch. There's no sane way to handle your
> case, so the best you could opt for is to import it to a system with
> sane case-handling, alter the repo so no two filenames clash, and then
> check it out on your case-insensitive filesystem. Note that you'll

You don't need a sane system, since git's index provides one:

  # make our new repo without checking anything out
  git-clone -n /path/to/other/repo repo
  cd repo

  # grab a text representation of what would be checked out
  git-ls-tree -r HEAD >files
  # fix up any broken filenames
  $EDITOR files
  # and shove it into the index
  git-update-index --index-info <files

  # update your working tree
  git-checkout-index -a
  # and optionally save the commit
  git-commit -m 'broken filenames hack'

Of course, all of the prior commits won't be usable. You would have to
repeat this hack on every commit using git-filter-branch for that.

-Peff