From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joshua Jensen Subject: Re: Possible bug with branch names and case sensitivity Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 15:08:36 -0700 Message-ID: <4ECD6EE4.6080702@workspacewhiz.com> References: <4ECB315F.4080701@alum.mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Jay Soffian , Michael Haggerty , Gerd Knops , git@vger.kernel.org To: =?UTF-8?B?w4Z2YXIgQXJuZmrDtnLDsCBCamFybWFzb24=?= X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Nov 23 23:07:38 2011 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 1RTKyf-0008Q1-Hk for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 23:07:37 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756353Ab1KWWHe convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:07:34 -0500 Received: from hsmail.qwknetllc.com ([208.71.137.138]:48016 "EHLO hsmail.qwknetllc.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756343Ab1KWWHd (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:07:33 -0500 Received: (qmail 25685 invoked by uid 399); 23 Nov 2011 15:07:27 -0700 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.109?) (jjensen@workspacewhiz.com@67.171.115.152) by hsmail.qwknetllc.com with ESMTPAM; 23 Nov 2011 15:07:27 -0700 X-Originating-IP: 67.171.115.152 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: ----- Original Message ----- =46rom: =C3=86var Arnfj=C3=B6r=C3=B0 Bjarmason Date: 11/23/2011 1:50 PM > > > Note that Git doesn't only have confusing behavior with refs on > case-insensitive filesystems. The other day HFS+ users @ work had > issues because of a case collision in the checked out tree, which > confused git status et al. Is core.ignorecase set to true? Is the repository shared with a case=20 sensitive file system? I have a patch sitting around for 'git update-index --add' that fixes=20 some case insensitivity issues, especially when using Git Gui. This=20 patch complements the core.ignorecase patches I sent in the past. -Josh