From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robin Rosenberg Subject: Re: Odd issue - The Diffs That WILL NOT DIE. Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2012 21:38:17 +0200 Message-ID: <5047AA29.2000003@dewire.com> References: <20111206215102.GA3654@centaur.lab.cmartin.tk> <20111207220345.GA21596@sigill.intra.peff.net> <20111207225827.GB641@centaur.lab.cmartin.tk> <20111207230625.GC21852@sigill.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: =?UTF-8?B?Q2FybG9zIE1hcnTDrW4gTmlldG8=?= , Chris Patti , git@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff King X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Sep 05 21:38:28 2012 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 1T9LQh-0002Xa-W9 for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2012 21:38:28 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759240Ab2IETiV convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Sep 2012 15:38:21 -0400 Received: from zimbra.dewire.com ([83.140.172.131]:45602 "EHLO zimbra.dewire.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754719Ab2IETiT (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Sep 2012 15:38:19 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.dewire.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD68182401; Wed, 5 Sep 2012 21:38:18 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at dewire.se Received: from zimbra.dewire.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.dewire.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id gZmsKW3G32IK; Wed, 5 Sep 2012 21:38:18 +0200 (CEST) Received: from Robin-Rosenbergs-MacBook-Pro.local (h30n1fls32o828.telia.com [213.65.101.30]) by zimbra.dewire.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 649C682400; Wed, 5 Sep 2012 21:38:18 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:16.0) Gecko/20120828 Thunderbird/16.0 In-Reply-To: <20111207230625.GC21852@sigill.intra.peff.net> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jeff King skrev 2011-12-08 00.06: > On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 11:58:27PM +0100, Carlos Mart=C3=ADn Nieto wr= ote: > >> If you want to use OSX to develop this project, you'll have to eithe= r >> rename one of those files or set your filesystem to be case-sensitiv= e >> (and unset core.ignorecase afterwards). From what I've heard, the OS >> itself will work fine with a case-sensitive filesystem, but not all >> applications might. YMMV. > > I've never done it, but my understanding is that for HFS+, going > case-sensitive is not a simple flip of a switch, but you have to > actually make a new filesystem. Given that complexity, and the fact t= hat > some other apps might not like it, your best bet might be to create a > new case-sensitive filesystem in a loopback file, and then mount that > just for this project. > > I'm not sure of the exact commands under OS X, but I'm sure some > googling could probably turn up a solution. The disk tool does this for you. Can't be much easier than it is. -- robin