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From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
To: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Cc: Dan Loewenherz <dloewenherz@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Does changing filename case breaks git's rename heuristic?
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:02:18 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTikPcPAGn6VMiD9Mbxfq3rdU4EeHsd32qniYu5VZ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C77DDDC.8070407@drmicha.warpmail.net>

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Michael J Gruber
<git@drmicha.warpmail.net> wrote:
> The journalling is no problem, but HFS is. I'm no Macxpert but if I
> remember correctly, then under HFS "readme" and "README" are the same
> file, i.e. HFS only remembers how you want it spelled. People will
> correct me where I'm wrong.

That's correct, HFS is case-preserving but case-insensitve. There is a
case-sensitive variant but it is not the default and sadly, some
applications assume case-insensitity and will break if the system
volume is otherwise.

j.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-08-27 20:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-27  4:57 Does changing filename case breaks git's rename heuristic? Dan Loewenherz
2010-08-27  5:36 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2010-08-27  8:00 ` Michael J Gruber
2010-08-27 14:52   ` Dan Loewenherz
2010-08-27 15:46     ` Michael J Gruber
2010-08-27 16:22       ` Stephen Bash
2010-08-27 20:02       ` Jay Soffian [this message]
2010-08-28 10:39       ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason

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