Re: [PATCH] Demonstrate failure of 'core.ignorecase = true'

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 09:00:31PM +0100, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:

> Maybe:
> --- 8< ---
> When set, case-insensitive comparisons will be used when internally
> comparing file names.
> 
> The default is false, but when a new repository is created by
> git-clone[1] or git-init[1], git will probe the filesystem and set it
> to `true` if the filesystem is case-insensitive.
> 
> On case-insensitive filesystems like FAT, NTFS and HSF+, names that
> differ only in capitalization, like "Makefile" and "makefile", refer
> to the same file. While such filesystems usually preserve the
> capitalization used during file creation, tools designed for such
> filesystems will often modify capitalization when saving files and
> when displaying filenames. Enabling core.ignorecase causes git to
> ignore case-only differences in file names.
> 
> Enabling core.ignorecase on a case insensitive filesystem does
> not make sense, because filenames with different capitalization will
> still be treated as different by the filesystem.
> --- >8 ---

From his response, I guess Junio does not agree, but this is my favorite
of the texts proposed so far.

-Peff

PS If we do use it, it needs s/HSF/HFS/.