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Re: git and file name case on cygwin

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Mark Levedahl <mdl123@verizon.net>
Date
Feb 4, 2007, 14:17 UTC
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Niklas Höglund wrote:
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> It's true that I don't intend to do any Linux development on a Windows
> system. I'd use a Linux system or a Linux VM for that. I do on occasion
> have a look through the Linux source code when I'm struggling with some
> badly documented hardware, but I could use a tarball for that. (I guess
> the netfilter code would still get mangled, but I can live with that.)
>
> Niklas
>

Note that cygwin provides mananged mounts (mount -omanaged) that handles files whose names differ only in case. The names are of course mangled when exploring via native windows tools but not cygwin tools. e.g.,

t>touch file1 File1 t>ls File1 file1 t>cmd /c dir /b %46ile1 file1

Mark
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Message 7 of 9 in “git and file name case on cygwin”
  1. Niklas HöglundFeb 3, 2007
  2. Linus TorvaldsFeb 4, 2007
  3. Junio C HamanoFeb 4, 2007
  4. Linus TorvaldsFeb 4, 2007
  5. Junio C HamanoFeb 4, 2007
  6. Niklas HöglundFeb 4, 2007
  7. Mark LevedahlFeb 4, 2007
  8. Jakub NarebskiFeb 4, 2007
  9. Sam RavnborgFeb 4, 2007

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