From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Konstantin Khomoutov Subject: Re: Git-Win: case insensitive names Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2015 20:42:53 +0300 Message-ID: <20150601204253.50939487ba6e49feb443343e@domain007.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Vadim Kramer X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jun 01 19:43:03 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YzTjq-0002R9-Dr for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Jun 2015 19:43:02 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752855AbbFARm5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Jun 2015 13:42:57 -0400 Received: from mailhub.007spb.ru ([84.204.203.130]:58674 "EHLO mailhub.007spb.ru" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752691AbbFARm5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Jun 2015 13:42:57 -0400 Received: from tigra.domain007.com (tigra.domain007.com [192.168.2.102]) by mailhub.007spb.ru (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5+lenny1) with SMTP id t51Hgr3H009577; Mon, 1 Jun 2015 20:42:54 +0300 In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.2.0 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Mon, 1 Jun 2015 13:30:19 -0400 Vadim Kramer wrote: > Just had to deal with a nasty cross-UNIX/Windows problem. > > Two files in the repository were in the same direcory and had the same > name differing only by the case of some of the letters. While > checking them out, git wantonly confused them (conflated them into > one) and got confused about them. > > I know it's an outlandish situation. Still, when git is in a > case-insensitive file system, it should at least check for this. What it does it do if you have core.ignorecase set to on? (And you did tell nothing about your platform and your Git version.)