From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Bash Subject: Re: Does changing filename case breaks git's rename heuristic? Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:22:54 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <29718856.121438.1282926174106.JavaMail.root@mail.hq.genarts.com> References: <4C77DDDC.8070407@drmicha.warpmail.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Dan Loewenherz To: Michael J Gruber X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Aug 27 18:23:08 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Op1hr-0007fr-2A for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 18:23:07 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753334Ab0H0QXC (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:23:02 -0400 Received: from hq.genarts.com ([173.9.65.1]:34136 "HELO mail.hq.genarts.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752898Ab0H0QXB (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:23:01 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail.hq.genarts.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34A931E268F5; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:23:00 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mail.hq.genarts.com Received: from mail.hq.genarts.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.hq.genarts.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id An5xJNuIQ3ut; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:22:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail.hq.genarts.com (mail.hq.genarts.com [10.102.202.62]) by mail.hq.genarts.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E5DB1E268EA; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:22:54 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <4C77DDDC.8070407@drmicha.warpmail.net> X-Mailer: Zimbra 6.0.7_GA_2473.UBUNTU8 (ZimbraWebClient - SAF3 (Mac)/6.0.7_GA_2473.UBUNTU8) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: > > I'm using a Mac with a journaled filesystem and Git version 1.7.2.1. > > The journalling is no problem, but HFS is. I'm no Macxpert but if I > remember correctly, then under HFS "readme" and "README" are the same > file, i.e. HFS only remembers how you want it spelled. People will > correct me where I'm wrong. > > Your test script should produce the expected result if you use, say, > "readme" and "RAEDME" , i.e. names which differ by more than just > case. It's a problem on some (most?) Macs. A while back Apple introduced an option to format a partition as case sensitive (Wikipedia implies 10.3 introduced this feature). For a long time after the feature was introduced the factory install continued to be not case sensitive, but I don't know if that's still the case (no pun intended). Stephen