From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2011 23:06:25 GMT
Subject: Re: Odd issue - The Diffs That WILL NOT DIE.
Message-ID: <20111207230625.GC21852@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20111207225827.GB641@centaur.lab.cmartin.tk>

On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 11:58:27PM +0100, Carlos Martín Nieto wrote:

> If you want to use OSX to develop this project, you'll have to either
> rename one of those files or set your filesystem to be case-sensitive
> (and unset core.ignorecase afterwards). From what I've heard, the OS
> itself will work fine with a case-sensitive filesystem, but not all
> applications might. YMMV.

I've never done it, but my understanding is that for HFS+, going
case-sensitive is not a simple flip of a switch, but you have to
actually make a new filesystem. Given that complexity, and the fact that
some other apps might not like it, your best bet might be to create a
new case-sensitive filesystem in a loopback file, and then mount that
just for this project.

I'm not sure of the exact commands under OS X, but I'm sure some
googling could probably turn up a solution.

-Peff