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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Demonstrate failure of 'core.ignorecase = true'
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:08:03 -0700
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PJ Weisberg <pj@irregularexpressions.net> writes:

> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> underlying system calls like open("foo") will *not* magically start
>> returning a file descriptor opened for "FOO" if your filesystem is not
>> case insensitive.
>
> No, but magic_open("foo") might, if someone had put forth the effort
> to write a function called magic_open.

Exactly.

That is why we avoid describing what happens when you set it on a case
sensitive filesystem, to leave the door open for such a cleverness.

It may still be a mistake in the manual that we did not explicitly say
that setting core.ignorecase on a case sensitive system will give you an
undefined behaviour.