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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: On pathnames
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:18:48 -0800
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"Martin Langhoff" <martin.langhoff@gmail.com> writes:

> There is one thing that I don't see in Junio's plan...
>
>  - a warning during checkout if the index contains "equivalent" paths
> that will clobber eachother during checkout.
>  - an optional warning/error during add, to be raised if I am adding a
> path that is equivalent to an already-existing path in the index

Thanks.  I think these and many other issues need to be worked
out.

In my message, I did not even try to be exhaustive.  I outlined
the parts that would most deeply affect the parts I care more
deeply about, which is the plumbing.  As I said many times, I do
not do Porcelains ;-).