Re: Switching from CVS to GIT

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

Hi,

On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Steffen Prohaska wrote:

> On Oct 16, 2007, at 2:33 PM, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > > Maybe we need a configuration similar to core.autocrlf (which controls
> > > newline conversion) to control filename comparison and normalization?
> > > 
> > > Most obviously for the case (in-)sensitivity on Windows, but I also
> > > remember the unicode normalization happening on Mac's HFS filesystem
> > > that caused trouble in the past.
> > 
> > Robin Rosenberg has some preliminary code for that.  The idea is to wrap
> > all filesystem operations in cache.h, and do a filename normalisation
> > first.
> 
> At that point we could add a safety check. Paths that differ only by
> case, or whitespace, or ... (add general and project specific rules here)
> should be denied. This would guarantee that tree objects can always be
> checked out. Even if the filesystem capabilities are limited.

This would be an independent change.  The method I talked about only ever 
looks at one filename, never what is already there.

What you want would probably be all too easy with a pre-commit hook.  No 
need to clutter the git-core with code that is usually not needed (you'd 
only ever activate it on Linux when other developers use Windows or 
MacOSX).

Ciao,
Dscho