From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Levedahl Subject: Re: git and file name case on cygwin Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2007 09:17:34 -0500 Message-ID: <45C5EAFE.6030900@verizon.net> References: <7vmz3uzpc2.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <1170597557.7538.12.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Linus Torvalds , Junio C Hamano , Git Mailing List , "David S. Miller" To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Niklas_H=F6glund?= X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Feb 04 15:17:45 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HDiBb-0008Oz-Rp for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sun, 04 Feb 2007 15:17:44 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752199AbXBDORl convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Feb 2007 09:17:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752192AbXBDORl (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Feb 2007 09:17:41 -0500 Received: from vms046pub.verizon.net ([206.46.252.46]:33219 "EHLO vms046pub.verizon.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752021AbXBDORk (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Feb 2007 09:17:40 -0500 Received: from [127.0.0.1] ([71.246.235.75]) by vms046.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-6.01 (built Apr 3 2006)) with ESMTPA id <0JCX007S1ZOY022C@vms046.mailsrvcs.net> for git@vger.kernel.org; Sun, 04 Feb 2007 08:17:24 -0600 (CST) In-reply-to: <1170597557.7538.12.camel@localhost> User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Niklas H=F6glund wrote: > It's true that I don't intend to do any Linux development on a Window= s > system. I'd use a Linux system or a Linux VM for that. I do on occasi= on > have a look through the Linux source code when I'm struggling with so= me > badly documented hardware, but I could use a tarball for that. (I gue= ss > the netfilter code would still get mangled, but I can live with that.= ) > > Niklas > =20 Note that cygwin provides mananged mounts (mount -omanaged) that handle= s=20 files whose names differ only in case. The names are of course mangled=20 when exploring via native windows tools but not cygwin tools. e.g., t>touch file1 File1 t>ls =46ile1 file1 t>cmd /c dir /b %46ile1 file1 Mark