{"thread":{"id":"39486","subject":"Git-Win: case insensitive names","startedAt":"2015-06-01T17:30:19Z","lastAt":"2015-06-01T17:42:53Z","messageCount":2,"participants":["Vadim Kramer","Konstantin Khomoutov"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"262622","messageId":"CAFQnHJfK94wG_bpe3OFmd7CyZzLCQFq70QGoMAP8=PchdUVH9g@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"39486","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"Git-Win: case insensitive names","fromName":"Vadim Kramer","fromEmail":"vkokielov@gmail.com","sentAt":"2015-06-01T17:30:19Z","receivedAt":"2015-06-01T17:30:19Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"vkokielov@gmail.com","avatar":null},"body":"Hi,\n\nJust had to deal with a nasty cross-UNIX/Windows problem.\n\nTwo files in the repository were in the same direcory and had the same\nname differing only by the case of some of the letters.  While\nchecking them out, git wantonly confused them (conflated them into\none) and got confused about them.\n\nI know it's an outlandish situation.  Still, when git is in a\ncase-insensitive file system, it should at least check for this.\n\n~v\n"},{"id":"262625","messageId":"20150601204253.50939487ba6e49feb443343e@domain007.com","threadId":"39486","inReplyTo":"CAFQnHJfK94wG_bpe3OFmd7CyZzLCQFq70QGoMAP8=PchdUVH9g@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: Git-Win: case insensitive names","fromName":"Konstantin Khomoutov","fromEmail":"kostix+git@007spb.ru","sentAt":"2015-06-01T17:42:53Z","receivedAt":"2015-06-01T17:42:53Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"kostix+git@007spb.ru","avatar":null},"body":"On Mon, 1 Jun 2015 13:30:19 -0400\nVadim Kramer <vkokielov@gmail.com> wrote:\n\n> Just had to deal with a nasty cross-UNIX/Windows problem.\n> \n> Two files in the repository were in the same direcory and had the same\n> name differing only by the case of some of the letters.  While\n> checking them out, git wantonly confused them (conflated them into\n> one) and got confused about them.\n> \n> I know it's an outlandish situation.  Still, when git is in a\n> case-insensitive file system, it should at least check for this.\n\nWhat it does it do if you have core.ignorecase set to on?\n\n(And you did tell nothing about your platform and your Git version.)\n"}]}