From: Jonathan del Strother <maillist@steelskies.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 13:49:30 GMT
Subject: Re: [BUG] git-filter-branch and filename case changes on insensitive file systems
Message-ID: <21D113DE-FEA8-4CD4-BFC6-3C57C1980597@steelskies.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710101436570.4174@racer.site>


On 10 Oct 2007, at 14:39, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, Jonathan del Strother wrote:
>
>> My repo has a change where a directory named Src was renamed to src.
>
> That is no problem for git-filter-branch.
>
>> I'm using case insensitive HFS+.
>
> That is the problem.

...

> I vote for wont-fix (or more accurately "invalid") in git and
> please-fix-in-your-setup.

Would love to switch to case sensitive HFS+, but it causes a number of  
problems for OS X users - a number of 3rd party applications don't  
bother supporting case sensitive formatting (notably Adobe :/ ).


I appreciate that it's difficult and/or impossible to make certain  
operations work on case insensitive FS's, but it seems like git ought  
to at least complain noisily when it encounters such a situation...