Re: [PATCH 0/6] Extensions of core.ignorecase=true support

From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Date: Aug 17, 2010, 21:20 UTC
Message-ID: <201008172320.17939.j6t@kdbg.org>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=0j_JFWBp=kJG6v+YBUxKAiVAVc4UtG0LWmipq@mail.gmail.com>

On Dienstag, 17. August 2010, Robert Buck wrote:

> While I tend to agree with case-insensitive searches, I would tend to
> question the use of a non-case-preserving / last-use methodology
> reminiscent of the days of DOS.

There is no "last-use" involved. Everything's rather "first-use", i.e., case-preserving.

> The nice thing about case-insensitivity is that when requesting a file
> by name any capitalization can be used. The bad thing, well come to
> think of it, there is none that I can think of, but for those more
> religious than I about Unix they may cite otherwise.

What do you mean by "requesting a file"?

core.ignorecase is purely about the worktree and the transition of files from the worktree to the index. It is *not* involved when files are moved from the index or the repository to the worktree. In particular, it is not used when you give a pathspec to limit 'git log' results. (Joshua proposed a change where core.ignorecase would also kick in in this case as well, but this change is not included in this series, and I would not agree to it.)

-- Hannes