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From: gmane2010@cfaerber.name (Claus Färber)
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Git under Windows should warn or fail on entities differning only in case
Date: 12 Feb 2010 19:19:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BIjfD8Ogt6D@mid.cfaerber.name> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1265978433.7519.6.camel@chumley

David Hagood <david.hagood@gmail.com> schrieb/wrote:
> If you have 2 entities in a directory which have names differing only
> in case, e.g. "foo" and "FOO", under a REAL operating system with case
> 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,...

Mac OS X has the same problem.

Further, it does not preserve the Unicode normalisation form.

Claus

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-02-12 20:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-12 12:40 Git under Windows should warn or fail on entities differning only in case David Hagood
2010-02-12 13:14 ` Johannes Schindelin
2010-02-12 17:31   ` Pete Harlan
2010-02-12 21:02     ` david.hagood
2010-02-12 18:19 ` Claus Färber [this message]
2010-02-12 20:38   ` Julian Phillips
2010-02-13  6:05 ` Daniel Barkalow

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