From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marius Storm-Olsen Subject: Re: Windows support Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:41:22 +0200 Message-ID: <46A86C42.8070103@trolltech.com> References: <46A73015.7020306@midwinter.com> <20070726031546.GN32566@spearce.org> <08588116-8E66-4F40-BC77-E0B272BE7776@zib.de> <20070726065332.GB18114@spearce.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig7559C1BDDD35368743F6563B" Cc: Steffen Prohaska , Dmitry Kakurin , Steven Grimm , git@vger.kernel.org To: "Shawn O. Pearce" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jul 26 11:40:52 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 1IDzpy-0006JP-EP for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:40:50 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752725AbXGZJkr (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jul 2007 05:40:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752865AbXGZJkq (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jul 2007 05:40:46 -0400 Received: from esparsett.troll.no ([62.70.27.18]:41754 "EHLO esparsett.troll.no" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752588AbXGZJkp (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jul 2007 05:40:45 -0400 Received: from esparsett.troll.no (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id 0771874277; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:40:44 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [10.3.4.215] (error.troll.no [10.3.4.215]) by esparsett.troll.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFE6274269; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:40:43 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.5) Gecko/20070716 Thunderbird/2.0.0.5 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <20070726065332.GB18114@spearce.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.2 Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAFVBMVEXU1NTAwMABAQGsrKyE hIQwMDAEBAS8hGUfAAACQUlEQVQ4jV2TS47cMAxEKSDZW1CfwMB4PYLkrKchsveJRR2gEen+R0hR 9vziBmahhyqSRQ4NfF1FmIv3dH4usNAGoFprBVguQJmZ1nX0XiHgEukTCK3TairiZeXcVGzmZIoU 3738pehdVbiU9KFgMQWeZ1fpHZDfRS4rPb3eQVaZChGx4ikt5GDkAZQ2KKohzjklno4+iJpVhxka ZjSpasJ4gdGaEQMWTMjRa5uTqza0XDJjzhIdzGTMrqoopimoIPCKZtVOq265MAXpMLXycmVl2Y8C oE1FkT/faKauOjYoHJyOxHfvixjowvI0xZJsKykubgLYzuJMdBO+L86TjxfQ9hz9jpSudbnXXzRm tor5i3MUONpOfARAhlWbzWF7OhP2eSeEW9HUBNiHOxUM8HLWHhUAj3NZNsdqRZpNA+DJ+XlX+Qc9 Z4ZjHX8LRUzgTBBef84NQoCMOcS0+BMsj3klbTzRri03ugXr9em1GfgzDAyEn4J3fvFI5YwdTrYu 1ntAY1h5ysM2OMGm+cBOocCXHisAHu2PagnLghoG2krz8bzsA4fj7KxCGk+63jt+DDCtYjbFNkHD nRwpRqsQYx5WYzsbm/eBfn0I4TbOGvMWqhQAiEDzNs4apumCI0x2OyHtY7uAlZff/sanbH9+AGT1 KOEmUlJISdYPgEgehw+cTZEf6xeFyoEjCPgv+A62KhW3EOy9PL7WmCBMRWmfYN0OqW9krzl/Ay91 75HMqfDtP8UFckFUX2rwrm/kTVB2gH+hdu4avZVCuAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig7559C1BDDD35368743F6563B Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable >> * Be careful with the case in filenames. Similarly, avoid >> special chars in filenames. >=20 > This is true. Git doesn't like getting file names with case only=20 > differences on such a platform. E.g. just today I wanted to do the > following: >=20 > git mv foo.c Foo.c >=20 > but had to instead do: >=20 > git mv foo.c CRAP && git mv CRAP Foo.c >=20 > because the former won't work on a filesystem that ignores case. I > have the same problem on my Mac OS X HFS+ volume as it also ignores > case. You can turn off case-insensitivity in the Windows kernel, by using RegEdit, and setting the following registry key to 0: HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\kernel\obcaseinsens= itive I haven't tried it, but it should help your case above. Just keep in mind that you can then check in files which your coworkers can't checkout :-) --=20 =2Emarius --------------enig7559C1BDDD35368743F6563B Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (MingW32) iD8DBQFGqGxCKzzXl/njVP8RAuG4AJ9IebGkGZkvfSL9Es4iJnCjN6vHxACgoVmC 18RSq6bQQH1FzQIPUicQ+Ck= =QNCj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig7559C1BDDD35368743F6563B--