Re: [PATCH 18/18] alternates: use fspathcmp to detect duplicates

From: Aaron Schrab <aaron@schrab.com>
Date: Oct 5, 2016, 02:34 UTC
Message-ID: <20161005023455.GA6215@pug.qqx.org>
In-Reply-To: <20161003203626.styj2vwcmgwnpx4v@sigill.intra.peff.net>

At 16:36 -0400 03 Oct 2016, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

>On a case-insensitive filesystem, we should realize that
>"a/objects" and "A/objects" are the same path.

The current repository being on a case-insensitive filesystem doesn't guarantee that the alternates are as well.

On the other hand, I suspect that people who use a case-insensitive filesystem would be less likely to use names which differ only by case.

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