Case sensitivity on Windows for absolute paths.

[Ricky Clarkson <ricky.clarkson@gmail.com>]

Hi,

I noticed that if I have a git repository at C:\foo, and there is a
file in there named bar, git add bar works fine, git add C:\foo/bar
works fine but git add c:\foo/bar does not.  git reports that the file
'is outside repository'.  Looking at setup.c it seems that string
comparisons are being used to determine whether a file is within the
repository.

For my purposes I can probably make a Windows build that does it while
ignoring the case, but is there a more proper way that git should do
it?  I'm not familiar enough with the POSIX file routines to know.

A separate tool, maven, is what specifies it as lowercase, otherwise I
would obviously just write C: instead of c: myself.  I think I know
how to fix that so it uses relative paths, and will look into that,
but it would be good to have git do the right thing too.

Thanks,
Ricky.

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