From: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 08:50:27 GMT
Subject: Re: RFD: Handling case-colliding filenames on case-insensitive filesystems
Message-ID: <201102240950.27139.johan@herland.net>
In-Reply-To: <7v8vx643z4.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Thursday 24 February 2011, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> writes:
> > On Wednesday 23 February 2011, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >> I think two things are sensible to do, are relatively low hanging
> >> fruits,
> >> 
> >> and are of low risk:
> >>  - break checkout on such a tree on incapable filesystems; and
> > 
> > Wouldn't that be a regression from the current state (where the poor
> > user in a case-insensitive worktree can at least "git rm" the
> > offending files, and keep working without assistance from a
> > case-sensitive worktree)?
> 
> Depends on the definition of "break".  I meant "exit with non-zero
> status", not necessarily changing what is left in the working tree from
> what the current code gives us.

Ah, ok. I have no problem with that.


...Johan

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