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From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fast-import: add options to enable/disable case folding
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2015 16:36:11 +0900
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On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 11:44:00AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> So perhaps we should rip the case folding out altogether instead?
> The entry for the change in the Release Notes may say:
> 
>  * "git fast-import" incorrectly case-folded the paths recorded in
>    the history when core.ignorease is set (i.e. the repository's
>    working tree is incapable of expressing paths that differ only in
>    their cases); this old bug was reported in 2012 and was finally
>    corrected.
> 
> or something like that?

Is anything else then git-p4 known to rely on case folding? If not, I
guess that's a reasonable plan. We could even add an option to
fast-import that would allow to turn case folding back on, and make
git-p4 use it, so that its expectations are fulfilled. Although at some
point, it could (should?) do case folding itself(?)

Mike