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From: Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Git under Windows should warn or fail on entities differning only in
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Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:38:25 +0000
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On 12 Feb 2010 19:19:00 +0100, gmane2010@cfaerber.name (Claus F=C3=A4rb=
er)
wrote:
> David Hagood <david.hagood@gmail.com> schrieb/wrote:
>> If you have 2 entities in a directory which have names differing onl=
y
>> in case, e.g. "foo" and "FOO", under a REAL operating system with ca=
se
>> sensitive file system semantics, this is no problem. However, under
>> Windows and their wonderful "Case preserving but case insensitive"
>> semantics, "FOO" and "foo" would be the same file,...
>=20
> Mac OS X has the same problem.

Only by default.  You can choose to use a case sensitive filesystem if =
you
wish.

> Further, it does not preserve the Unicode normalisation form.

Unfortunately you can't choose to turn this off. :(

--=20
Julian