Re: [PATCH/RFC] blame: respect "core.ignorecase"

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sep 10, 2012, 20:34 UTC
Message-ID: <20120910203442.GA968@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vvcflmxis.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 01:30:03PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> > If the proposal were instead to add a certain type of pathspec that is
> > case-insensitive[2], that would make much more sense to me. It is not
> > violating git's case-sensitivity because it is purely a _query_ issue.
> > And it is a feature you might use whether or not your filesystem is case
> > sensitive.
> > ...
> > [2] I did not keep up with Duy's work on pathspec magic-prefixes (and I
> >     could not find anything relevant in the code or documentation), but
> >     it seems like this would be a logical feature to support there.
> 
> I think it mostly is in setup.c (look for "Magic pathspec").

Thanks, that helped. I got excited when I saw the "icase" in the comments and thought it might already be implemented. But it looks like it is still to be done. :)

-Peff