Trouble with case-insensitive filesystems

Hi,

after importing the opensolaris hg repo into git, I noticed that git gets confused if the repo contains files that clash on case-insensitive filesystems (here on OS X, I can't test Cygwin and Win32). git-checkout tells me that these files are modified, git-status gives me:

$ git status # On branch master # Changed but not updated: # (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed) # # modified: usr/src/cmd/lp/filter/postscript/font/devpost/HB # modified: usr/src/cmd/lp/filter/postscript/font/devpost/HB.name # modified: usr/src/cmd/lp/filter/postscript/font/devpost/HI # modified: usr/src/cmd/lp/filter/postscript/font/devpost/HI.name # modified: usr/src/cmd/lp/filter/postscript/font/devpost/HX # modified: usr/src/cmd/lp/filter/postscript/font/devpost/HX.name # modified: usr/src/cmd/lp/filter/postscript/font/devpost/charlib/LH # modified: usr/src/lib/libldap4/common/Version.c # no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")

...without touching anything. Yes, there's a version.c file next to Version.c, HI.name next to Hi.name and so on.

I'm not really sure what I'm expecting git to do, but I guess I want it to abort a checkout and only continue with -f. But at the very least, it should issue a big fat warning (one may decide to work in some area without clashes).

I really have no idea how to efficiently detect that at runtime and which areas of git to look at for patching...

Rocco