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Hi Stefan,

On Sun, 16 Oct 2016, Stefan Beller wrote:

> Conceptually I would prefer if we had a single switch that indicates a
> case insensitive FS.

AFAIU Lars' use case is where the FS is *case sensitive*, but he still
needs the .gitattributes to be *case insensitive* because that file
originates from a developer with such a file system.

Otherwise he would simply tack onto the core.ignoreCase flag.

Ciao,
Dscho