From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 06:51:39 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] setup/rev-parse: allow HEAD to be spelled 'head'
Message-ID: <20071005065139.GA2623@steel.home>
In-Reply-To: <1191553750-25562-1-git-send-email-sam.vilain@catalyst.net.nz>

Sam Vilain, Fri, Oct 05, 2007 05:09:10 +0200:
> If the repository got mangled by FAT capitalization rules, then a ref
> such as "HEAD" will become "head" once it is back on a non-FAT FS.
> Check for this condition in resolve_refs and in the setup code.
> 
> Suggested-by: Francois Marier <francois@debian.org>
> Signed-off-by: Sam Vilain <sam.vilain@catalyst.net.nz>
> ---
>   This should probably help people putting their git repos on
>   FAT USB sticks.

Can the people just mount FAT partitions with shortname=mixed?